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2/27/2008

The Curse of The Killer Flies!!




In WW2 The Curse Of The Killer Flies came all around the trenches. all the reamns of dead bodies got eaten by the flies and maggots lived everywhere! It only came out last week about this horrific diease called Flier Racky Manky, where when flies bit you, you could get a terrible disease and die in a slow and painful way!

Now the goverment are being sued! 100 million pounds to the family who had suffered this disease.

What do you THINK???

Theres Something Wrong With Hitler!!!



Latest News Just Off The Internet! Hitler Has Been Named ALIEN PHYSIO!!! Someone had just found out that Hitler has been confirmed with three eyes! And mysteriously his small moustach has grown!!

Also, his left eye (our right) is slightly popping out! Does this mean that he is from another world!!

Look closely at the picture! Surely there MUST be some error to this picture!!!




NEWS JUST IN!!

Supposidly a alien MOUSE bit Hitler and turned him into a Mental Alien!! No wonder Hitler killed all those Jews. Because of a ALIEN MOUSE!!! Look, he's after ALL of our Corn and has LOADS of eyes!!!!!!!!! Visit to go onto more sites!

2/19/2008

Amy's Poems of WW1 and WW2

Right, you might as well read some of MY poems... My made up sort, maybe a bit confusing to you... but to me, poems are a peice of art and linking it in the Holocaust and other bits of History, well i think its great!!


The Holocaust
By Amy

The bus looms on the dusty hill,
I wonder if my father is ill,
They grab me and my mother,
my brother and his lover.

We sit in the bus sitting in gloom,
Wondering if this is our doom,
Maybe i could escape?
Down the hill and to our gate.

After days of crammed together,
I feel myself fall and tether,
We get our cases, boxes and books,
I see people giving me looks.

I think WHY as they lead us away,
To get the 'shower' of the day,
It's dark inside and people cry,
Something comes down and i hear "My Oh My!"

I feel something slide down my throat,
Thinking of the Pleasure Ride Boat,
I suddenly feel a sharp stab,
Mother looking for find and dab.

She can't find anything,
It's starting to hurt, to kill, to sting,
I gag and retch, choking my lungs,
Spilling out on everyones tounges.

I feel a sigh of relief,
As i get to a corner, but i see in grief,
My Mother falling and lying down,
All because of the Gas Chamber Town...

2/06/2008

The Holocaust









The Holocaust was the most brutel thing that probably EVER happened. It started in
WW2, Hitler didnt like the Jews... to find out more about Hitler go on 'Why Did Hitler Start WW2'... anyway, so he approx gassed 6 MILLION JEWS!

Concentration camps were set up for the Jews. Many believed they were going on Holiday, to a summer camp... but they would never realise what was going to happen to them.

Loads were stuffed in carts and carriages and carted off to the camps with all their precious belongings... so anyway, when they got there the Germans seperated the Jews into two groups, the elders, women and childen went one way... to the 'shower' while the other, mostly men, went off the other way.
The germans said to the first group that they needed a wash, and were told to leave their belongings behind so that they wouldnt get wet while they were in a 'shower'...

So anyway, the Jews all went in, getting ready to have a lovely shower... Loads of holes was in the roof, so they thought that a shower would actually come in...
But the door shut behind them all, but they couldnmt get out because a handle wasn't in on the inside... then all of a sudden the gas fell down on them and the people in the middle got hit first and died almost suddenly, the people on the outside, tried to get out through the hatch, climbing over the dead...

Actually, the Jews were usually foound in pyramids, after they had tried to climb on top of eachother to get to the hatch at the top, which led to FREEDOM, no one ever made it though, which was SUCH a shame...

The second Group got moved off from the rest, mostly men, and ended up made to work for the Germans. they became their slaves and usually died of exhaustion, starvation or diseases. Treatment was bad for the Jews, they hardly ever saw their familys again. Most people were gased and were thrown into fires, which the Jew lsaves were made to chuck the dead Jews into the fires to be cremated. It must of been hard for them to think that their Daughter, Wife, Mum, Son... anything of relations, could be in the pile of ashes that came out after a load of bodies had been chucked in...

http://history1900s.about.com/library/holocaust/blholocaust.htm

1/29/2008

What was War Like for the Children?


Ofcourse, the kids were important too! So its only right they get their own part... So here goes...


The kids were send away from any danger areas, out into the country, so they could be safe. They were known as Evacuees... a very 'cool' name to be called...

In the first four days of September 1939, nearly 3,000,000 people were transported from towns and cities in danger from enemy bombers to places of safety in the countryside. So that they didn't die and they could restart the economy if loads of people died...


So anyway, most of them were schoolchildren, seperated by their parents and labelled like peices of old luggage and took away by small army of guardians - 100,000 teachers. It must of felt weird for the kids because they would have a new address. In fact a 1/4 of the population in Britain had a new address in just 1 WEEK!


Trauma and isolation soon overwhelmed all of children invovled in the evacuation... they were scared, terrified and anger. Most were unaware of where they going, what they'd have to do and when they'd see their parents again...

The fear of air attack from German bombers at the start of hostilities encouraged parents to send their children to safety. There were predictions of 4,000,000 civilian casualties in London alone, and, as early as 1922!!!


Obviously the casualties were over exaggerated! right from the start, most people would of probably thought the predictions were way OTT!


Rationing:

Rationing was happening ALL OVER THE WORLD! This was so that everyone got enough to eat in the trenches because Britain couldn't afford to feed everyone so Ratino Books were formed up, which gave you a certain amount of food for the week...


Heres a recipe for War Time Cheese Pudding... (which was easy and simple to make from rations...)

Ingedients ~ 2 Eggs

250 ml of Milk

100grams of grated Cheese

50grams of Bread Crumbs

a pinch of dried Mustard

Salt and Pepper

Method ~

1. Heat the oven to 200 c, gas mark 6

2. Mix the eggs and the milk together.

3. Stir in the cheese, breadcrumbs and mustard.

4. Add salt and pepper to season.

5. Pour into a greased tin.

6. Bake for 25-30 mins until set.


Then eat it! Yummy!

The things mostly rationed was: Sausages, eggs, bacon, tinned food and cheese. You could also make your own things like bread and grow your own things like raspberries. Then your could also by things like fruit and veg!! ...


Questions:

1. woman has made use of the soil on top of her Anderson shelter by growing vegetables. Why would she have done this?

2. Many schools began giving children free milk. This teacher is dishing it out from an urn. Why do you think children were given milk?

3. Rabbit dolls has been made out of scraps of material. Why do you think so many people made their own dolls and toys during the war?

4. Parents held their babies inside its gas mask. How do you think a baby might have felt?

5. Children are 'evacuees'. They have been sent to live in the countryside because living in the city is dangerous. Why was it dangerous? What do you think is on the label round the childrens' neck?


Answers:

1. They might have used the space, so that it looks less like a shelter so it has less chance of being bombed. And also they might not of had much space to grow foods, so they used the space.

2. So that they stay strong and also so that they got a decent amount of goodness.

3. Because most of the best cloth was made to make soldier uniforms.

4. It would of probably felt very scared! I would of been!

5. It is dangerous because loads of bombs were being dropped everywhere. A placard, with all their details on.
Letters Home: Letters home from Children to parents had loads of information on it, from what their new schools were like to their new carers...
It was their only really form of contact. Letters were easy to write and you could put loads of information in it without paying loads of money... They sometimes contained clothes to send to their parents, socks, vests and gloves...
Letters from parents were kept and definately NOT thrown away! The letters that the evacuees got was the only source of contact from their parents for months on end.
EVACUEES HOME :
A ususal home had a Adults bedroom, a childs bedroom, Hallway, Kitchen, Scullery, sitting room, a small back yard and a Anderson Shelter.
Right to start with the Adults bedroom, it contained: a double bed, gas lamps, a small fireplace to keep the room warm, a dressing table and blackout curtains ~ Heavy curtains. They made sure no light from the room could be seen from outside. If enemy planes saw your light below them you could become a target for their bombs. And also maybe rugs on rhe floor.
Childs bedroom: a small single bed, a chamber pot ~ Most houses had outside toilets in the backyard or garden. If you needed the toilet in the middle of the night it could be very cold! A chamber pot in your bedroom made life easier. Also a waterjug and basin for washing your face and hands in the morning, and last of all a small chest of drawers.
Hallway: Maybe letters on the doormat, Stirrup pump and sand buckets and maybe a picture on the wall.
Kitchen: Stove, Radio, tables an chairs and a fruit bowl.
Scullery: Irons, gas cooker, a gas water-heater, and a gas lamp.
Sitting Room: A fireplace to keep it warm, a bookcase, candles, lino floor and chairs.
Backyard : A metal bathtub, a washboard to wash your clothes, a mangle which wringed out the water on clothes.
Anderson Shelter : Benches for sitting and sleeping on, bunks maybe to sleep in. A suitcase or box to store food and toys in, surrounded in curved panels and people grew vegetables on top of it to make it look better and also to use up the space.
Well thats it for the home... Maybe more later... when i can be bothered! Hehe... Hope you've enjoyed it!

For a great website and where some of this information is from please click below:

WW2 German Children...
Right, German children... So now that Hitler had control over them they did exactly what he said...
Once Hitler gained control, he thought Children Were the FUTURE! Which was true, they were, but how Hitler was taking it to the next level. To make sure they turned out to be
P-E-R-F-E-C-T... ! He did the following things... :
1. He made up Hitler Youth Movements ~
Pimpfen (The Little Fellows) - Boys 6-10 yrs
Jungvolk (The Young Folk) - Boys 10-14 yrs
Jungmadelbund (Young Girls) - Girls 10-14 yrs
Hitler-Jugend (Hitler Youth) - Boys 14-18 yrs
Bund Deutsche Madel (League of German Girls) - Girls 14-18 yrs
2. He rewrote textbooks so that all the things in them were GOOD about Germany.
3. They were made to stand in straight rows, line on in straight rows, salut in straight rows.
4. Teachers belonged to the German Teachers League so they could teach the children properly.




World War 2 Websites...


For some good World War 2 Websites ~ Then click below to find out great info ~ Possibly maybe all alike...







All the websites above have useful information that basically, i can't be bothered to write down. Even though, i've learnt lots in history...

Hope you like it...

Why did Hitler Start WW2...


Right, you wanna know why Hitler started World War 2?

Well to be honest not many people know. There are loads of different reasons that people think. EG: People thought he was a bit mental... His mother dying... All sorts of reasons, but none has been selected as the main problem...

Hitler was whipped by his dad as a young boy, he didn't do well at school, he lived basically on the streets at 19... the only thing that probably kept him going was his mother, Klara. Who loved and doted him...

Right, time to go down memory lane..... Adolf Hitler was born in a lower middle class family, so basically they weren't very rich or important... (A bit weird, when the one of the family became the leader of WW2 for the Germans...)

He was born in Braunau-am-Inn, Austria. Hitler loved drawing, and was very god at it, but he was regected from the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. For YEARS he tried to become a famous painter, but poverty made him struggle.

Hitler joined the army in 1916, WW1, and he won the Iron Cross Second Class and the Iron Cross First Class, but then he was wounded.

After WW1 ended struggled for years to secure the Nazi Political Party, but then he was sent to prison in 1923. He was given a 5 year sentence, but he was only in there for 6 MONTHS! He was arrested for participating in a failed coup against the Bavarian government...


Hitler won only 37% of the German votes in the 1932 election. He was appointed Chancellor by Paul von Hindenburg, the figurehead President of Germany in 1933!!! Which was a huge stepfor him and all the Germans...


Hitler became power over a country that was the laughing stock of Europe, so he was determined to bring it back up to its original standards.

However during his first four years of power Hitler did not start a war. He waited until he could end unemployment and bring Germany to a level of prosperity that could support war. It was during his next four years that he started a war and began the mass murder of people he considered the enemies of Germany.


So he started the war and started a mass murder, basically ALL OVER THE WORLD! Even though, after the WW1 was lost, they were only allowed 100,000 army men, Hitler didn't care and increased that to millions, he built more ships and tanks and basically EVERYTHING!


To end... was it Hitler's fault that all of this happened? Of course you might think it was! And think what is she SAYING!

But think about it... After all that Hitler had been through, could you actually BLAME him??

Maybe he was crazy... maybe his horrible childhood affected it...

Who knows, and to be perfectly honest... I don't think no one will ever know....


For more of a descripton .... click below...

http://www.historyonthenet.com/WW2/causes.htm#Hitlers_Actions

REAL LIFE

My mums partner said that his MOTHER was German, but she didnt convert into a Nazi... she got married in Berlin then moved over to England. MANY people dispised her, but she still had a brave face...

SHE saw Hitler twice! In parades mostly... she said he was a very small man compared to most people, but he had the voice of a bull!

The Battle of the Somme & Trench Warfare


Right so the Battle of the Somme... The Battle of the Somme map plan.... (ABOVE)

On the 1st of July 1916 the Battle of the Somme began. It happened at around 7:30 in the morning, whistles were blown to start what was one of the bloodiest battles in the History of wars. Soldiers from across Britain rose slowly from their trenches and walked slowly towards the Germans front-line trench which was on a 15 mile stretch across Northern France.
By the end of the day 20,000 British and Irish lads were never to go home again and another 40,000 were injured lying in ditches.
The British battle plan was as follows: British would attack on a 15 mile front line to the north of the Somme with 5 French divisions attacking along an 8 mile front line to the south of the Somme. Despite having fought trench warfare for almost tow years, the British Generals were so confident of success that they even ordered a cavalry to be put on standby, to exploit the hole that would be created by a horrible infantry attack.

The battle started with the British bombarding the German lines with a total of 1.7 million shells being fired. It was said that with such a pounding would destroy the Germans in their trenches and rip through the wire that had been placed down in front.
This plan did not work though, this is because the Germans had sunk deep proof bomb shelters or bunkers in which to take refuge, so when the bombardment took place, and all the Germans did was go underground and waited for it to stop. When it stopped, the Germans would come out and get their machine guns ready to face the British and French forces.

To maintain discipline the British ordered the soldiers to walk slowly up to the German trenches, this gave the Germans time to get to their defensive posts and as that happened, the Germans started firing into No mans land and then the slaughter began.
Some soldiers did manage to get to the German trenches, but they were driven back again.

The British army had got 60,000 casualties with almost 20,000 dead. The largest loss in one day since the war began EVER.

The months that followed turned into bloody stalemate. In September they tried using their tanks, but they didn’t make a great impact.
Heavy rain throughout October made the land into mud baths.

The battle finally ended in mid-November. The British had about 360,000 casualties with a further 64,000 troops from across the empire, the Germans around 550,000 and the French nearly 200,000.

For many, the Battle of the Somme was a symbol of how terrifying and horrific that trench warfare was... and it was horrible. Imagine it, just waking up everyday thinking YOU MIGHT DIE! I would of been terrified and the Battle of the Somme was so stupidly planned out that i would of refused going out there and risk my life!


It wasn't for glory and pride, it was just to show that England was a better country, which was new anyway!
Click below for more info...
World War 1 Trench Warfare
The Western Front during World War 1 stretched from the North Sea to the Swiss Frontier with France.
Both sides dug themselves in ending any possible chance of a quick war; this caused a stalemate, which was to last for most of the war. Over 200,000 men died in the trenches of WW1, most of who died in battle, but many died from disease and infections brought on by the unsanitary conditions.

Life in the Trenches
The first thing a new recruit would notice on the way to the Frontline was the smell, rotting bodies in shallow graves, men who hadn't washed in weeks because there were no facilities, overflowing cess pits, creosol or chloride of lime, used to stave off the constant threat of disease and infection. Cordite, the lingering odour of poison gas, rotting sandbags, stagnant mud, cigarette smoke, and cooking food. Although overwhelming to a new recruit, they soon got used to the smell and eventually became part of the smell with their own body odour.

A Dead soldier lies rotting on the battlefield
Rats and Lice
Rats were a constant companion in the trenches in their millions they were everywhere, gorging themselves on human remains (grotesquely disfiguring them by eating their eyes and liver) they could grow to the size of a cat.
Men tried to kill them with bullets shovels or anything else they had at hand, but they were fighting a losing battle as only 1 pair of rats can produce 900 offspring in a year.
Some soldiers believed that the rats knew when there was going to be a heavy bombardment from the enemy lines because they always seemed to disappear minutes before an attack.
Lice were a constant problem for the men breeding in dirty clothing they were impossible to get rid of even when clothes were washed and deloused there would be eggs that would escape the treatment in the seams of the clothes.
Lice caused Trench Fever, a particularly painful disease that began suddenly with severe pain followed by high fever. Recovery - away from the trenches - took up to twelve weeks.
It was not discovered that lice were the cause of trench fever though until 1918.
Millions of frogs were found in shell holes covered in water; they were also found in the base of trenches. Slugs and horned beetles crowded the sides of the trench. Many men chose to shave their heads entirely to avoid another prevalent scourge: nits.
The cold wet and unsanitary conditions were also to cause trench foot amongst the soldiers, a fungal infection, which could turn gangrenous and yucky wit the result of amputation. Trench Foot was more of a problem at the start of trench warfare; as conditions improved in 1915, it rapidly faded, although a small number of cases continued throughout the war.

Shell Shock
Between 1914 and 1918 the British Army identified 80,000 men (2% of those who saw active service) as suffering from shell-shock. Early symptoms included tiredness, irritability, giddiness, lack of concentration and headaches. Eventually the men suffered mental breakdowns making it impossible for them to remain in the front-line. Some came to the conclusion that the soldiers condition was caused by the enemy's heavy artillery. These doctors argued that a bursting shell creates a vacuum, and when the air rushes into this vacuum it disturbs the cerebro-spinal fluid and this can upset the working of the brain. So basically you get the idea of how horrible it actually was! Yeah??? It was horrible and yucky. Defo not a place you'd want to live in for years.... would you!?

For a good trench warfare site visit:
http://www.firstworldwar.com/features/trenchlife.htm

World War 1 Started...



Right, World War 1, currently known as WW1. It all started with some guy, Gavrilo Princip, killing this Francis Ferdinand. He was important anyway, he ruled basically. On June 28th 1914, the heir to the Austrian Empire, Franz Ferdinand, was visiting Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia. Somewhere in the south-east corner of the Austrian empire and some people there wanted to be independent from Austria and set up their own state which could run itself.
Franz Ferdinand had been warned that his visit could provoke trouble but he ignored this advice and visited Sarajevo regardless. As was common at the time, he travelled in an open topped car.

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And well you can guess the rest... some guy came along, through a grnade in, but Francis and his wife didnt's actually die! So Princip got out a gun and shot them both in the head...

What a great way to die! So anyway, that started up WW1. Just because some important guy got killed, a huge war was raged up! How pathetic! Well it is if you ask me! But, you know, people got killed if they made out with someones elses wife, well back then anyway...

So yeah, they all started declaring war on it eachother, and it kind of got out of hand...
On August 4th, we finally declared war on Germany and we went to war... People enlisted and got all trained up so they could fight, hopefully without dying before they got to the battlefield.

They learnt how to fix bayonets, how to crawl on muddy grounds, how to dig trenches quickly and neatly, how to put up tents, and all that stuff... but the problem was when they got out to the real trenches where the bad things happened.

Most of them thought it was like a play, that it would never happen, that they would never have to go out to the frontline trenches, but soon reality set in and they were soon living in HELL!
Rats ran over you at night, ate your food, and gave you illnesses... Trenchfoot set in with all the dampness and mud ALL over the place! Where ever you looked it was just MUD MUD MUD!

To find out more click below...

http://hubpages.com/hub/World_War_1_Trench_Warfare