Hey guys, as some of you might know, I'm a senior this year at the University and will graduate with dual bachelors in History and German language and culture in May of this year. As a senior in History, as opposed to taking what they call a capstone course, I have chosen to write a "senior honors thesis". This will allow me to graduate with departmental honors, finish out my required credits, and will give me a great writing sample for law school applications I'm also working on.
I am writing my thesis on the Culture of the SS. How it was perceived by high leaders within the SS as well as German society during the Third Reich. As this is supposed to be graduate level work, I am required to enlist the use of a multitude of first hand sources. Right now I'm looking for documents/instructions/books that relate to SS Culture. This can mean, marriage rituals and anything associated with supposed "Germanic Culture". I am also going to post this under the wanted section, but I am looking for simply photo copies and such of most of these things or whatever I can get ahold of. Even the Julleuchter document would be useful.
I am writing my thesis on the Culture of the SS. How it was perceived by high leaders within the SS as well as German society during the Third Reich. As this is supposed to be graduate level work, I am required to enlist the use of a multitude of first hand sources. Right now I'm looking for documents/instructions/books that relate to SS Culture. This can mean, marriage rituals and anything associated with supposed "Germanic Culture". I am also going to post this under the wanted section, but I am looking for simply photo copies and such of most of these things or whatever I can get ahold of. Even the Julleuchter document would be useful.
...thought it was kinda cool that young people still find history, its lessons and teachngs relevant, and choose a path to understand what has come before us, maybe I should have focused harder on wood and metal shop. In a time/age when a lot of teenagers/young people don't even know who Stalin/Mao or Himmler was I find that pretty disturbing, and does not bode well for the future. The same logic would suggest that today's youth should abandon the study of history all together, and write about what, rap music, ipods, or new and improved ways to text, or develop politically correct terms to replace "old" speak language. I think your view is the one that Orwell in a very clear way warned against, the destruction of history. He who controls the past, controls the present, he who controls the present, controls the future. I do agree that there some revisionist historians who will distort history to fit a predetermined ideology, however, the study and writing of history unless you live in some strange doppelganger universe seems both important and relevant.
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