Author: katiep34
Returning Home?
Palestine was drastically changed due to the increase of displaced persons and the creation of Israel. The betrayal and distrust that stemmed from this era is still prevalent in the region today. On both the Israeli and Palestinian sides of the Israel debate are feelings of betrayal as well as entitlement to a home and …
Zionism
The creation of a homeland is often deeply ingrained in community identity. The question of whether a community needs a specific piece of land is one of the themes of the readings for Holocaust and Homelands. Jewish people had been persecuted long before Hitler and the Nazi regime. Hitler used preexisting anti-Semitism to justify his …
Reconstruction and Consumerism
Following the war the governments had to figure out how to rebuild. This meant they needed a plan for what they wanted their nation to look like following the war. This meant deciding who to look for for advice. From the first world war they knew the importance and implications of an unsuccessful reconstruction. In …
Reshaping Importance
Following the second world war there was an upheaval of what was known. The war shook up the world and people were trying to rebuild. This left the question of whether things should be rebuilt as they were or in a new way. The role of masculinity in American society following the war was influential …
The Hiroshima Maidens Continued Impact
The narrative that the American media and government tried to concoct following the war was threatened by the Hiroshima maidens’ voyage to America. David Serlin, author of Reconstructing the Hiroshima Maidens, argues that reconstruction of the Hiroshima maidens was a nuanced event. There was both true altruism and a ploy to uphold western values. Kiyoshi …
Mental Health in a Post War Society
Viewing the treatment of PTSD in WW2 veterans through modern attitudes is disheartening. There was an overwhelming sense of blame and personal weakness put on the veterans. The early assumption was that men who came back from war affected had “underdeveloped egos” (100). This assumption plagued the decades following the war. It was twisted and …
#1 Displaced Persons
America in the Post War and how it differs from what we know. I think that what many of us, Americans, were taught about WW2 and American involvement was that American troops came to the rescue on D-day and subsequently ended the war with the atomic bomb drop. Then we quickly moved onto the Cold …
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