Course Summary and Expectations Welcome to Facing History (FHAO, pronounced “Fow,” as it is nicknamed by its students). Facing History is an intense, fast-paced course in which we look at the history of the past 100+ years by focusing how......more.
The Dropping of the Atomic Bomb on Japan Some people had many streaks of clotted blood on their faces and limbs, the blood already dried. Some were still bleeding; their faces, hands, and legs were dripping blood. By now, all......more.
National Security Archive Update, March 29, 2004 U.S. INTELLIGENCE WARNED "GENOCIDE" IN RWANDA IN APRIL, BUT CLINTON ADMINISTRATION WAITED UNTIL LATE MAY TO USE WORD; NEW DOCUMENTS AND REPORT HIGHLIGHT ARRAY OF INFO BEFORE U.S. POLICYMAKERS For more information contact......more.
Never Say (Unofficial anthem of the Jewish partisans)Hersh Glik (1922-44), a poet in the Vilna ghetto (Lithuania) wrote the song in Yiddish in 1943, after the Warsaw ghetto uprising Never say there is only death for you. Though leadened skies......more.
Call to Resistance by the Jewish Fighting Organization in the Warsaw Ghetto, January 1943 To the Jewish Masses in the Ghetto On January 22, 1943, six months will have passed since the deportations from Warsaw began. We all remember well......more.
There were those who escaped to the forests who crawled through the sewers who jumped from the back of trains There were those who smuggled messages who smuggled dynamite inside breadloves inside matchboxes inside corpses There were those who were......more.
Why resist? Why rescue? Why not be a bystander? We were doing what had to be doneThings had to be done, thats all, and we happened to be there to do them. You must understand that helping these people was......more.
Nuremberg Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor, September 15, 1935 Moved by the understanding that purity of the German Blood is the essential condition for the continued existence of the German people, and inspired by the......more.
An excerpt from Leni Riefenstahls Autobiography Leni Riefenstahl was hired to make a film about the 1934 Nazi party congress in Nuremberg which became Triumph of the Will. (She had made a short film about the 1933 rally, a film......more.
The 25 Points: The Program of the National Socialist German Workers Party (the Nazis) 24 February 1920 The program of the German Workers' Party is an epochal program. The leaders reject the idea of setting up new goals after those......more.
Hitlers earliest known political writing, September 1919 On 10 September 1919, when Hitler was still in the army and stationed in Munich, one of his superiors, Staff-Captain Karl Meyer, asked him to state his views on the Socialists attitude......more.
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The German people, united in all their racial elements and inspired by the will to renew and strengthen their Reich in liberty and justice, to preserve peace at home and abroad; and to promote social progress, have established the following......more.
The Political Parties of Early Weimar Germany KPD German Communist Party (Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands) The extreme left in German politics. Founded in 1918 by the Sparticist League. Support declined after the attempted coup in 1919, it recovered and began a......more.
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Marx and Engels, The Communist Manifesto, 1848: Key Premises 1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes. 2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax. 3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.......more.
Aug 1914 World War I begins Stores owned by Armenians & Greeks are vandalized or burned Sep 1914 Armenians are ordered to turn in their weapons, including all knives Oct 1914 Mail service to places outside Turkey is terminated. All......more.
Christmas in the Trenches John McCutcheon My name is Francis Tolliver, I come from Liverpool. Two years ago the war was waiting for me after school. To Belgium and to Flanders, to Germany to here I fought for King and......more.
Jules Ferry (1832-1893): On French Colonial Expansion Ferry was twice prime minister of France, from [1880-1881, 1883-1885]. He is especially remembered for championing laws that removed Catholic influence from most education in France and for promoting a vast extension of......more.
Comments by Father Charles E. Coughlin, The Radio Priest, 1930s-1940s "I believe that when a banker speaks, you can go the opposite way and be right. That has been proved in recent years." -- March 6, 1934 "... we shall......more.
Reading: Henry Ford, The International Jew, 1920 Chapter 16: THE STATE OF ALL-JUDAAN Judaism is the most closely organized power on earth. It forms a State whose citizens are unconditionally loyal wherever they may be and whether rich or poor.......more.
Reading: Jews and Jazz from: Henry Ford, The International Jew, 1920, chapter 11 JEWISH JAZZ BECOMES OUR NATIONAL MUSIC Many people have wondered whence come the waves upon waves of musical slush that invade decent homes and set the young......more.
Martin Luther: The Jews and Their Lies (1543)an extract At the beginning of his career, Luther was apparently sympathetic to Jewish resistance to the Catholic Church. He wrote, early in his career: The Jews are blood-relations of our Lord; if......more.
Richard Wagner, Judaism in Music, (1850) The Jewwho, as everyone knows, has a God all to himselfin ordinary life strikes us primarily by his outward appearance, which, no matter to what European nationality we belong, has something disagreeably foreign to......more.
Statement of Vatican II (also known as the Declaration on the Relationship of the Church to Non-Christian Religions aka Nostra Aetate), October 1965, issued by Pope Paul VI for the full text, go to http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_decl_19651028_nostra-aetate_en.html On the relationship between......more.
What does it say in the New Testament about Jesus death and alleged Jewish responsibility (the deicide charge)? Matthew 27: 1-46 Generally believed to have been written between 50 and 70 A.D. Matthew was a Jewish tax collector that left......more.
Facing Eugenics and Ourselves: The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory In-class exercise and Homework assignment Due: in class on Monday, November 24 Note: We will begin this in class today, but you are to finish whatever you do not complete in......more.
The INTER-TRIBAL COUNCIL of the FIVE CIVILIZED TRIBES Organized February 3, 1950 Resolution No. 2001 - 08 THE FIVE CIVILIZED TRIBES INTERTRIBAL COUNCIL MASCOT RESOLUTION WHEREAS, the Intertribal Council of the Five Civilized Tribes is an organization that united the......more.
1. What do you think caused your heterosexuality? 2. When and how did you first decide you were a heterosexual? 3. Is it possible your heterosexuality is just a phase you may grow out of? 4. Could it be that......more.
Facing Lynching and Ourselves Sam Hose worked for a planter, Alfred Cranford. He asked his employer for an advance in pay (some reported he had tried to collect wages already owed him) and for permission to visit his ill mother.......more.
The White House Washington March 19, 1936 My dear Mr. White: Before I received your letter today I had been in to the President, talking to him about your letter enclosing that of the Attorney General. I told him that......more.
Isidor Paiewonsky, Eyewitness Accounts of Slavery in the Danish West Indies On a well run slave ship, the process of stowing the slaves for the night began at sundown. One of the best descriptions of the process is to be......more.
An excerpt from Benjamin Franklin, "Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, Peopling of Countries, &c." (1751) 12. 'Tis an ill-grounded opinion that by the labor of slaves, America may possibly vie in cheapness of manufactures with Britain. The labor of......more.
Thinking about Stereotypes Complete the following sentences. Record your first thought for each of these; dont spend too much time thinking about them. All athletes are __________________________________________ People on welfare are all ___________________________________ He's a cheap _____________________________________________......more.
• We begin the year looking at the "ourselves" part of facing history and ourselves." How do we define and see our own identities? How do we categorize ourselves and others? How do stereotypes and traditional beliefs affect our views......more.
STEP 1 • Go onto the Internet. Go to the following site: www.learntoquestion.com/class From the “class” page, scroll down until you find “discussion forums” (it’s the second item on the list). Click on that. • At the top right of......more.
Please complete during the first day of class Name : _______________________________________________ (after your first name, include any other name that you prefer to be called—in parentheses) Homeroom: ________ Graduation (circle one): 2003 2004 FHAO section ____ Address: ________________________________________________________________ Town: _______________________________......more.
Welcome to Facing History and Ourselves (FHAO). FHAO is an intense, fast-paced course in which we look at the history of the past 100 years by focusing how people have marginalized, discriminated against, and ultimately sought to separate themselves in......more.