Friday, February 22, 2008
Joe Louis
I was amazed at the fact that American moral could be based so much on a person of the entertainment industry but I suppose people are much the same today. For example, the olympics with the US against the former USSR was just as epic. More interesting was the fact that the man who lost to Joe Louis the second time around was forced to fight at Crete by Hitler for embaressing his country so badly even though he was well past the age of the draft. Though this story did have a happy ending which most war stories do not, and that was that the German that Joe Louis beat became friends with him later in life and actually paid for his funeral.
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Great job on the Joe Lewis presentation. I thought it was a great portrait of an individual who served his country and started to bring down the wall of segregation in the military. I also think it was a refreshing change in perspective on how we view WWII.
commenting mainly on the u-boat and referring back to a previous lecture and also the reading, Grand Admiral Karl Donitz commander of the german u-boat main purpose was to defeat the great britain and overall not necessarily sink all in sight but to block ports that would allow food and fuel to britain which ultimately would destroy any society and this is by no means the first time that a blocking of imports has been a good way to cripple an economy.
Entertainment has always been a successful contributor to positive morale. Look at the history of the USO - they don't call it escapism for nothing. People wanted something besides the war to think about, to root for.
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