PDF-(DOWNLOAD)-German Rocketeers in the Heart of Dixie: Making Sense of the Nazi Past during

This thoughtprovoking study by historian Monique Laney focuses on the US governmentassisted integration of German rocket specialists and their families into a small southern community soon after World War II In 1950 Wernher von Braun and his team of rocket experts relocated to Huntsville Alabama a town that would celebrate the team despite their essential role in the recent Nazi war effort for their contributions to the US Army missile program and later to NASAs space program Based on oral histories provided by members of the African American and Jewish communities and  by the rocketeers families coworkers friends and neighbors Laneys book demonstrates how the histories of German Nazism and Jim Crow in the American South intertwine in narratives about the past This is a critical reassessment of a singular time that links the Cold War the Space Race and the Civil Rights era while addressing important issues of transnational science and technology and asking Americans to consider their countrys own history of racism when reflecting on the Nazi past. Understand how the lives of civilians were affected by the war.. Understand what opposition there was to the Nazis during wartime from both civilians and the military.. To understand how Germany was defeated and how it was punished..  . One motivation for the German invasion of the USSR was the desire to acquire . Lebensraum. (living space) for the German people to colonize, at the expense of the Poles, Russians, . Belorussians. Volksgemeinschaft. :. “National Community”. A cornerstone of Nazi ideology and . propaganda. An organic, racial union . of all “. Aryan. ” Germans . Political strife and dissension have . no place in National Socialist society . ‘We work outdoors in all kinds of weather, shovelling dirt for very low pay. I’m trained as a printer. In the summer of 1933 I lost my job. I collected the dole until the spring of 1934. That was a lot better than what I am doing now. At least I was at home, with my family and could pick up odd jobs and work in the garden. Now I only get 10 day’s holiday a year.’. L/O – To examine the changes made to the German Workers’ Party (DAP) by Adolf Hitler. How did Hitler convince the people of Germany?. How did . Hitler. convince . the people of . Germany?. What on earth would make the German people decide to elect such a man?. The ‘Folk Community’. HI290- History of Germany. Volksgemeinschaft. (Folk Community). Idea of an equal community of racial comrades. Everyone’s participation. Equality defined racially and socially. L/O – To assess the successes and failures of Hitler’s economic policies. To what extent did Germans benefit from Nazi rule in the 1930s?. STARTER. : Can you name the 7 leading . Nazi. figures? Give one fact about each . Area of Study Three. German Culture...before and during the Nazi regime.. Before the . Nazis. came to power, Germany’s reputation in the Arts had been growing.. During the . 1920’s. German museums were full of works completed by the German modernists.. What is Propaganda?. Biased information. Created to shape public opinion and behavior. Simplifies complex issues or ideas. Symbols, images, words, or music. Plays on emotions. Advertises a cause, organization, or movement and its opponents. government led by Adolf Hitler and the. Nazi Party carried out the systematic. persecution and murder of Europe’s Jews.. This genocide is now known. as the Holocaust.. The Nazi regime also persecuted and killed millions of other people it considered. By Bradley Veile. Lakeside High School. Plummer, ID. Early Influences. Early Interests. Priesthood. Cowboys & Indians. . Playing “war”- Conducted Battles as Boer. . Artist. . denied entry to Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. Nuremberg Laws. September 15, 1935. Reich Flag Law. Official colors of the Nazi state are black, red, and white.. The national flag is the swastika flag.. Jews are forbidden from flying the German flag.. Hitler’s aims for the economy (4 year plan). Drag Germany out of the world recession.. Solve unemployment (which he had promised to do). Make Germany an “autarchy” – self sufficient.. Get rid of Jewish industrialists and give their businesses to “Aryans”.. HI290- History of Germany. Volksgemeinschaft. (Folk Community). Idea of an equal community of racial comrades. Everyone’s participation. Equality defined racially and socially. Based on exclusion of those who did not fit in racially and biologically (“non-Aryans,” “.