Reflections Day 7 - Group 1

Today had been a very interesting day, where we had gained many more insights on the past events of British history, mainly about the World War 1.this was certainly very interesting and it has stirred up many feelings about the war.

One of the places that we had visited was the Imperial War Museum. First of all we visited the trenches. Here we could put ourselves in the shoes of the soldiers. They had to live in these types of trenches, thus experiencing much suffering while fighting against the enemies for many months during the war. The conditions in which they lived in were quite terrible we find. The reason was that they had to eat sleep and do their toilet businesses in the same place.

The next thing we had visited was the World War 1 section in the museum. We saw many exhibits of the weapons, advertisements etc that was used in the war. These can then be considered as primary sources. An example of a propaganda poster that was used during the war was “Your country needs you” with the picture of Hitler pointing towards the reader. It was a powerful poster that played on the patriotism of the people of his country; hence Hitler was able to gain much support from his countrymen easily.

Subsequently, we went to visit the Holocaust Exhibition. It was a place that stirred up many emotions as well. Through the Exhibition, we have learnt about the sufferings the innocent people had to go through. It had been really saddening when we read through the write-ups and watched the films of interviews with survivals of the war about their experiences. The death of so many people in the euthanasia camps just because they were Jewish or they failed a certain aspect in their feature showed how cruel Hitler was. However, from the perspective of Hitler being able to have the support of his countrymen showed that he was a really good leader that people actually followed.