HIST 1F95 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Autopsy, Air-Raid Shelter, Herbert Mason
19 Dec 2016
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From the big bands to the bitzkrieg; the experience of total war. Do not think that you can serve the our government best by the sound of blaring machines evening after evening! . In 1933, nazi government made jazz music illegal, because a lot of african. American"s listened to jazz, and the nazi"s found african americans subhuman people. Charlie and his orchestra swing music group invented by goebbels. Popular songs included man with the big cigar (about winston churchill) , Was quite dry previous to the bombing, led to a fire vortex, a flame. 15,000 feet high: dresden bombings (dresden holocaust by allied forces) from 13 to 15. February 1945, british (and some american) heavy bombers dropped 2,400 tons of high explosives and 1,500 tons of incendiary bombs onto the ancient cathedral city of dresden. In just a few hours, around 25,000 to 35,000 civilians were blown up or incinerated.
