The videos that have been shown in class this week have been very helpful to me. I think it is important to hear as many first-hand accounts of the war as possible, and the video makes things much more vivid in general. The first-hand accounts help us to remember and acknowledge the importance of events that sometimes don't get more than a glance, such as the battle of the Herken Forest.
The Donald Duck propaganda was also very interesting. Watching things like this from the WWII era make me wonder. I may just not be noticing, but why don't we see more obvious and outright forms of propaganda about war today?
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Thinking about the Donald Duck cartoon, I realize how different things were then compared to now. Politically Correct considerations are now a must. During WWII these considerations were not taken, so what we would consider inappropriate today was totally okay. Cartoons like this are now made and played more privately on places like "you tube".
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