Reflexion on World Wars.

Overall, World Wars class was very good. The class really teaches you about certain specific events in the war, from what caused it and to how the world was after it. Mr. Mckenna and Mr. Chisholm did a great job of teaching us, and also letting us have a fun time in class, my favorite part of the class were the movies of course.

The Film From Class Today.

As we were watching the episode of The Pacific in class today, I noticed a lot of strange things. The one that hit me the most is about the Marines, and how they act towards each other. I saw that most of the soldiers had their own little posse. Some soldiers didn't really care much about the others. For example, when Sledge and other soldiers had first gotten to the tents, they weren't really welcomed in. They were giving a hard time. But there were some soldiers that helped them out and gave them tips, and a basic understanding of how the war was.

A Nazi Christmas

I just became curious about how Christmas was for Germany, you know with a dictatorship and if they had to go through several rules on what to do or believe on Christmas. I found out that Hitler left the job for his propaganda minister, Goebbels. Nazi Germany didn't allow Germans to believe Christmas in a religious way. They wanted German's to celebrate Christmas for the soldiers. He wants people to know that instead of celebrating Christmas for gifts, that they should celebrate to thank the soldiers that are fighting in the front lines for them , because they don't get to celebrate their own Christmas.

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I totally agree with Ambrose's view of us owing our freedom to the brave young men who fought for our country and gave their life to give us a better future. Many people are just so inconsiderate, many people think that soldiers are stupid, that fighting a war is just non-sense, but we call on them and they are there to fight for us. In this situation many young men which were two years older than us had to grow up fast, because they had to know how to function in the call of duty without fear. Specially when most of them had to lead their infantry regiment. These people were willing to give it their all for us, and they deserve for us to thank them. We owe them big time.

Holocaust Museum

On Thursday's trip to the Holocaust Museum I had a pretty bad bus ride, really uncomfortable. Once we got there I was relieved. Anyways I thought the tour was a pretty good tour. We did learn some new things, but most of us knew almost most of what they were talking about. I really liked the train box car, because I can only imagine how it felt in there and what it smelled like when they Nazi Germans stuck people in there and cramped them in there like insects. The box car had a really damp smell. What still keeps me wondering is a painting that the tour guide showed us. I can only remember the red coat of the woman the rest was black and grey. Overall, I had a good time at the museum, I would like to go back and check out the other parts of the museum that we didn't get to see. 

Mexico in World War Two

Many people believed that Mexico was not a very huge part of World War Two. Historians always leave out Mexico. Event though Mexico did not see a lot of combat. They did help us in a way. If Mexico had agreed to be allies with Germany it would have been a whole different World War for the United Sates.

Escuadron 201 pilots prior to flying a combat mission in the Philippines.
They used standard-issue U.S. flight uniforms and equipment. (U.S. Air Force photo)

 Later in around the 1940's Mexico and United States began to negotiate in alliance. Mexico was getting help building up their Army, Navy, and Air Force by the United States. For exchange Mexico was supplying U.S.A. with 40% of raw material to make weapons. Also, U.S.A. was getting oil from Mexico. Fascist Spain and Nazi Germany were still trying to persuade Mexico into joining the Axis power, because the alliance between Mexico and the U.S was not very smooth, and Mexico felt that at one point U.S.A. will take control of Mexico.

As the war kept on lasting, Mexico would eventually help the Americans fight for the return of the Phillipines. Mexico only used one Airborne unit which was called " The Aztec Eagles". Mexico had only thirty-one pilots, and of those only five died. Many other Mexicans crossed the border into United States to fight for the American military. As a result of this many Mexicans gained United States citizenship. Most of which moved back to Mexico.

In 1942 Mexico declared war on the Axis power. This was caused because Italian submarines had sunk Mexican Ships.

Overall, Mexico did have a pretty big part in the War. By giving United States aid, Mexico deserved great recognition, but didn't get what was expected.

Josef Mengele in South America

Mengele was a German physician who made experiments in the Nazi concentration in Auschwitz to prisoners there. His goal was to try to figure out how to prevent diseases, to see if people could live with five limbs, and to see if he could find a way to make people's hair color change to blond and eye color to blue. It was part of the idea of making the German race a pure and healthy race. Because of this he was nicknamed the Angel of Death.

Here are twins from the Mangele experiments in Canidodo Gadoi

After fleeing Germany during World War Two. Josef Mengele arrived at Argentina. Argentina at the point were allies with United States and Great Britain. From Argentina, Israel was on a quest to find Mengele since they knew he was there, because of the previous capture of German Adolf Eichmann. This made Josef to move to a small town in Paraguay named Hohenau. The Israeli group was still in the search to find the physician. So Mengele moved again this time to a small suburb of Sao Paolo, Brazil. He lived here with a Hungarian refugee family.

In the 1960's Mengele was a veterinarian in the Brazilian town called, Canidodo Gadoi. Here Josef performed as more of a doctor that would only work for women who were pregnant. Mengele was still trying to achieve his goal of creating the perfect German race of blond hair and blue eyes. He would see pregnant women and give them new drugs, shots, and potions to try to give the fetuses the blond color hair and blue eyes. Also these drugs will cause women to have twins. So this meant more blond hair and blue eye Aryan children were born.

To this day the small Brazilian town of Canidodo Gadoi has a twin birth rate of every one of eighty births, are twins. At the end of his life in 1979 Mengele had reached his goal.