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Adrian Rodriguez
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In most cases our history books show us for the most part, the bright side of history, the
Anglo point of view, or for example in a war or conflict we always learn it from the victors or the
conquerors point of view. One great example of this is how we are used to learn history is World
War Two. World War Two was conflict that started out in Europe with the rise of power of one
nation and its ambition for world domination. In the early 1939 Germany invaded Poland, which
initiated World War Two. Our history books usually shows the perspective of the main
contributors to the war, or Allies which were the ones who came to victory. I plan to not talk
about the Allies point of view, but the Axis powers point of view either Throughout the war or
certain events. By doing this we would be aware about that specific nation's values of why they
believe what they are doing is the right thing. Learning history from another point of view is
super important because we can have a better understanding of the event that occurred.
In the article "Treaty of Versailles" by the History channel, this article would appeal to
ethos as it talks about the logic of what was going on at the time. For example, Where the
Germans right for disobeying the Treaty of Versailles? After the first the World War, Europe and
many other countries where torn apart by the devastating fight, most of Europe was in ruins and
the amount of death in this new type of warfare left millions dead. The Triple Entente know as
the Allies, blamed Germany for beginning the war, which in fact it was all the European powers
who had strong Nationalistic ideals. After the war Germany was forced to sign a treaty which
said that Germany was to take all the responsibility for all the damage and deaths during the war.
Also so many laws and restrictions were put on Germany that caused their economy to collapse,
which contributed with starting the Great Depression, also this treaty completely humiliated
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Germany which resulted in hatred and resentment throughout the German population, what
would later cause World War Two. This treaty was called the Treaty of Versailles.
"The Battle of Berlin: An Eyewitness Account" by Gerda Drews, this topic's genre type
is a typography. The Thesis of this topic explains the how German people are living and what
they are going through during and after the battle of Berlin. Gerda wants to inform people that
the German people suffered too, especially towards the end of the war as they are closer to
defeat. The intended audience is to anyone studying history or simply just an average person.
Gerda's main rhetorical appeal was pathos, as throughout her story she wants to raise awareness
of what occurred in those times. Gerda establishes credibility and appeals to ethos by informing
the reader about names and dates. In the end Gerda appeals to logos by using personal
Also another source would be "World War Two from the German point of view" has no
clear author, this source is an iconography. The thesis of this source is how the Axis powers are
going through the war. The intended audience for "World War Two from the German point of
view" is to anyone studying history. The intended audience for "World War Two from the
German point of view" is mainly to Nazi fanatics. The video appeals to pathos as it uses a
depressing tone or mood to describe or portray its information. The video's ethos is utilized by
using dates, names and locations . The video appeals to logos as it used personal accounts like
Both topics speak about the horrors committed by the allies, while using a depressing
tone as they include information and eye witness accounts. One of the differences is that "The
Battle of Berlin" talks about atrocities committed by the allies, while "world war two..." talks
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about the war in general. Both topics achieved their purpose as they both tried to inform us.
Iconography was more effective as it had visuals, music, color and had more information.
Some people believe that the Japanese where crazy for how extreme they where when it
came to fighting for their country. The Japanese has a long military history dating back to the
early seventeenth century were the Samaria would fight to the death or commit suicide if they
were to lose or be captured. During the Second World War many of the Japanese Imperial
soldiers especially the commanding officers, would practice the same believes as the Samurai,
they would commit suicide or fight till death. This caused a huge increase in deaths on both sides
of the war in the Pacific Theater. The Japanese were not the only ones who where fanatical about
fighting for their country, the Russians would send many of their soldiers to battle without
weapons or even kill their own soldiers for retreating. We just think that the Japanese where
crazy for doing this but it was just what they believed was right, and also it was part of their
tradition.
The bombing of civilian population was practiced by both sides the Axis and the Allied
powers, but the Allies had air superiority throughout most of the war which meant the Allies
practiced the strategic bombing of civilians at a larger scale. In the video ''WW2 from the
German Point of View'', it talks about the strategic bombing which this would appeal through
emotion using pathos because of how sad they describe the events and the tone of both the music
and the voice. The average history book sees this from a positive way that this lowered the
morale in the German population, but if we were to see it from the German point of view this
would be very terrible because families died or a lot of people were left without a home. In fact
during the war the Germans would launch rockets to the city of London and in history books that
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was something that we think of negatively and bad of the Germans, when the Allies did the same
thing as well.
The goal of this assignment is to learn the motives, values, and the point of view of the
side that we are not used to learn from. This is important because we can learn more about this
event and also why it happened. Throughout this topic we would learn what is going on in the
minds of the Axis power's leadership, military, and civilian population. We might even see that if
we where to put ourselves in their shoes we might have reacted the same or if not believed and
accepted what was going on was right. It is important to learn history from both sides of the story
References
Drews, G. (2014, October 08). The Battle for Berlin: An Eyewitness Account.
8. (2015, June 30). WW2 From the Germans Point of View HD. Retrieved February
History.com Staff. (2009). Treaty of Versailles. Retrieved February 23, 2017, from
http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i/treaty-of-versailles