HST 296 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Tony Judt, Ian Buruma, Stunde Null
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(this lecture is based on the following books: postwar by tony judt and year zero by ian buruma) Stunde null = german term for the zero year or redo year these are the seeds of the global cold war. 60 million people killed by the war. Cities ruined by the war: hamburg, dresden, cologne, frankfurt, bonn, nuremburg. The city was destroyed which created a massive clean up cleaned up by the. The end is actually a beginning rebuilding everything including their mindset. The two superpowers = soviet union and usa. General eisenhower stated: the american mind was unable to comprehend what they said in germany. Other wars and horrors were overlooked like the chinese/japanese war (1937-1945) Nanking = most horrific massacre of wwii december 1937 japanese killed. Chinese civilians because the japanese thought that they were the superior race. Victors of wwii: london april 1945, british voted churchill out of office after wwii and voted in clemen.
