Odd comics

So, I have this book, Holy *****!: The Worlds Weirdest Comic Books. Which includes Comics like Fatman the Human Flying Saucer! and Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary. I found four of the comics in this book to be about World war 2. One is satirical, Hansi, The Girl Who Loved the Swastika,one attempts to show horrors of war, Atomic AttacK!, ones a Crude parody I can only find a image on online, Hyme Putz Presents "You Nazi Man", and the last one, Chaplains at War, dipicts the selflessness of Soliders on a sinking ship. All of these are written post World War 2, most likely because they needed to know if it was worth ending well or not, but I bet there are plenty of Comics during that time period filled with Propaganda(perhaps a Nazi Hulk).

Versailles: A Fitting Place

I find the Versailles was a fitting place for the treaty that taxed Germany so heavily be placed (and not only because if they called it the treaty of Versailles and signed in London no one would know what was going on). King Louis XIV built the palace as his own place to be rich and ignore the needs of his people. He taxed his people heavily to make the palace, just as the alliance would tax Germany greatly after the war. Louis XIV's palace was also the place where Louis called together the people of France to discuss what they were going to do to make France more fair for the French lower class. This meeting was quite unfair to the lower class and they had little say in what they got out of the meeting and weren't allowed to speak. Another group, the Germans, would also attend a meeting here where they could get very little negotiation in. The final reason that makes this such a interesting location is the removal of the monarchy in place. Because of Louis's poor execution of what to do for the French people, he was executed. His arogant statements and poor leadership got him kicked out of office. Kaiser Wilhelm the second was a fairly arogant and poor leader, and also kicked out of office with the treaty of Versailles. These were just some interesting parallels I found, but I'm sure most of them are totally unrelated.

A web site

I found this fairly interesting site: http://www.worldwar1.com/
And on it they have information about tours of old trenchs. Such a tour seems like it would not quite be worth the 2,950 dollars or trip to Europe only to see similar trenches all over the same front. After covering the information once you've seen one section of the westeren front you can most likely imagine all other parts of the maintained trenches. Though the tour adds some information more indepth about specific battles, plans, and trench life, we can draw from other places in the war that the general stalemate was held all over the country. A good thing about tours like this, that march you all over from Paris to Passendale, is that you can focus more on the stories of indivduals soliders that fought and lived in the trenches you visit. I can't assure how specific they get on the soliders though, because the amount of death most likely cause a great number of replacements of the solider in the area you visited.

World war 1 Hitler: Solider

I found An interesting article about:

New research today undermined the idea that Hitler was a First World War hero whose wartime experiences propelled him into power.


A new book challenges the commonly held notion that he was considered a brave member of his close-knit regiment, and that his experience during the Great War radicalised him and formed his world view.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/undermined-hitlers-image-as-wwi-hero-2054970.html

From this I propose that on top of Hitler's pre-standing irregularities in life that made him the man he later became, part of his evils stemmed from his experiences in the trenches. As we have seen in paintings from Otto von Dix(Though Dix wasn't a very Cheery painter before Machine Gunnery), you see some pretty bad things during that war. These tortured Images and terrible Experiences may have sparked Hitlers lack of compassion for Human life, or made him driven to control the world from a postion of power so he would never be forced to see those War Horrors again.

Imperialism Part in World war 1: A cause, with benefits.

http://www.cusd.chico.k12.ca.us/~bsilva/projects/great_war/causes.htm
This site has a short summary of most reasons of World war 1's begining. One of them is Imperialism.

Imperialism
Another factor which contributed to the increase in rivalry in Europe was imperialism. Great Britain, Germany and France needed foreign markets after the increase in manufacturing caused by the Industrial Revolution. These countries competed for economic expansion in Africa. Although Britain and France resolved their differences in Africa, several crises foreshadowing the war involved the clash of Germany against Britain and France in North Africa. In the Middle East, the crumbling Ottoman Empire was alluring to Austria-Hungary, the Balkans and Russia.

Because Europe compeated to attempt to get a bigger cut of the world, it created tension in Europe. A Europe yearning for more land alliances in Europe less durable. Though these colonies might of been part of the reason for the war's start, they did help those who attempted to gain them fight in the war. The colonies they gained through imperialistic policies had their benifits. Colonies gave the countries many resources to fight, and brought in quite a bit of profit for the countries they were owned by. Colonies offered soliders for Europe, but they also were easy targets and were difficult to defend.