Resources

I have collected my inter-loan book from the library, Hitler's Prisons and I have skimmed through sme of the pages and it seems to be a very helpful resource. The author Nikolas Wachsmann has refrenced every witness he has talked to in the back of the book,w hich makes the book seem very credible. The book also cotains pictures which helps me undertsand the outline of the timeline during Nazi Germany.

As I was on holiday two weeks ago in New Market, my boyfriends aunty gave me a copy of an interview between one of her daughters and their great grandmother who was alive during the time of the second world war (born 1911) Her father was jewish, but her mother was german, so she has described some of the events she had to do when the Nazi's pushed through all of the Jewish rules. She has not gone into great detail as she had said that she did not want to "remember those times".

His aunty also gave me a written diary of another great grandmother who was alive during the second world war but lived in London (so if needed, I can use the info from this resource to describe the perspective from the opposition [English])

Update on Research

I am sorry I haven't written on her for a long time, have been very very busy ! Just wanted to write on here today to say that I have read a small book which is a summary of Anne Frank's Diary. It was helpful because it highlighted the most important stages of Anne Frank's life and as I am looking into reading Anne Frank's actual diary, it will enable me to understand the drastic changes that she had to endure in her life.

When I was on holiday last week, I brought a book, The Scourge of the Swastika, highlighting a short history of Nazi War crimes and in it includes the:
-"ill-treatment and murder of the civillian population in occupied territory"
-"Slave Labour"
-"Concentration Camps"
-"The Final Solution of the Jewish Question"

I am at the stage of reading it through and making notes on helpful points.

Quite a while ago, a friend from college also gave me a book and DVD on the biggest concentration camp 'Auschwitz', which i still need to watch and read.

I have read through Wikipedia, which described all the different processes that the Nazis went through to wipe the race of the Jews of the earth and i found that the gas chambers were only thought of at the very last two years of the war.

I will keep updating on more research...

Thursday 7th July

I talked with Kay to think of my initial idea for my EPQ title. I have decided to write upon the topic of Nazi Germany and how the Jews and other races were abused through the Second World War. I am hoping to show how and why the Nazi's were able to go through with their infringements to the different types of races.