Operation Blog is ACTIVE

OK students...this is the platform upon which students will share their knowledge and understanding of the great marker event of 20th century world history: World War 2. The rules are simple:

1. All students must make at least one post to this blog. Posts are in the form of reflections, opinions, links to articles, video, music, images, etc. Students must relate the nature of their posts to a theme of the conflict and make commentary.

2. All students must make at least one comment on another students post. Comments must be thoughtful, argumentative if inclined, insightful, or you my pose some question leads to another post by you or another classmate.

3. You must tag your post with the applicable theme(s).

4. Grades will be based on an holistic scoring scale which heavily weights the frequency and substance of posts and comments. Minimum participation equates to minimum scores for this class exercise.

Sunday, February 14, 2010

Hitler's Wife


Do you guys know who she is? ....
Whenever mentioning about WW2, the first person that pops out in your head would be Hitler, and then President Churchill and all those Generals and many other more, which all are men. Whenever we learn about WW2, women wouldn't be in the topic that we discuss about, since women aren't the ones who fight in the war and are already having a hard time surving each day during war time. Well to think about it, whenever we discuss about WW2 and about Hitler, the question that pops up in my head is where have all the women disapeared to? Especially Hitler's wife. Once in my lifetime, I even thought that Hitler didn't have a wife and was always spending his time with his Generals ( which actually is true most of the time), well after doing some research I found out that Hitler did have a wife and she is the woman in the picture above. Her name is Eva Anna Paula Braun. Seeing her, the only thing that I could think about is how suffering it would be to be Hitler's wife. Well it basically must be for Eva, since she was Hitler's mistress for 12 years and was his officially known wife for only 1 day. She even had 3 suicide attempt in which the first 2 she failed. The first attempt was when she was found with a bullet in her neck. The second time, due to the desperation that she was being neglected by Hitler, she took 25 sleeping pills to make sure she wouldn't have to live again, however she still was saved. God may have really liked her or hated her for making her still live. However, Hitler may have loved Eva, since due to her suicide attempts he bought her a six room villa in Weidermeyerstrasse, in Munich. He even gave her a car with a chauffer. Being Hitler's wife it was even said that she knew about the Jew persecution, however did not know what was happening in the camps. Reading this it really makes me wonder that Eva must have lived a really peaceful life where she stays with nature and doesn't take any news or Hitler was really good at keeping news away from his wife.Finally, the last attempt that Eva commited suicide was with Hitler, in which she finally succeeded.

3 comments:

  1. How does one person survive a dose of 25 sleeping pills, let alone a bullet in the neck?
    What I'm really wondering though, is how they met and how Hitler kept away the information about the camps to her.
    I'm also not sure, but I heard they had a daughter?

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  2. I know Hitler is believed to have fathered a child with Herman Goering's wife...

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  3. The thing that really amazes me is the fact that someone was actually willing to be his mistress, and in addition marry him. Face it, Hitler was a crazy person. Was she forced to into this marriage? If she'd tried so many times to kill herself, why not just leave Hitler?

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