Part three of the reading HW

Ok so a couple of things that came to mind while I was reading the last third of the reading. When the author mentioned that the soldiers were as young as 18 year old that really hit me. I knew they were young but i cant even imagine if I had had to go to fight only a year from now. They had thier whole lives ahead of them, they hadnt even been to college yet. Also, going from the movies we have seen lately from BOB and Saving Private Ryan i really see how brutal the wars can be. No matter how many times I see it, the amount of suffering gets to me every time.

Uncle Chuck and the Holocaust

Here are a couple pages about my great Uncle Chuck liberating the concentration camp of Buchenwald. I found these couple pages from his memoir  that i blogged about earlier.  I also found someone at the Holocaust museum who was liberated from Buchenwald and I thought it was pretty cool that i had a family member there. Here is his account (click on the picture for a bigger view)!!!!

My family in WWII

When I was younger, Im not sure exactly when, my grandpa gave me a memoir of his uncle in world war two. It is a full story with his accounts of the war. He talks about seeing death camps and having a grenade land a few feet from him, but never exploded. I have read it twice in my life but its been a while. I believe it is one of the original copies typed on a typewriter, check it out!

(the top right conner says "to Mike Rench [my grandpa] from, your uncle chuck")

The eastern front.

I feel like hitler underestimated the Russians because of the fact that he though he could march right into Moscow. I think that he forgot how many people they have and as we talked about Russia can afford to having millions killed. I don't think any country of that time could defeat Russia with now allies simply because of numbers. If hitler had stayed away fro mattacking Russia head on we could be looking at a very different Europe because it would be extremely hard to defeat a Germany that was only fighting on one front.