Horrible Histories on the Hitler Youth.

Basically accurate. Kids were made to join this organization of indoctrination, and then sent off to fight when the Nazis were desperate for troops.

Horrible Histories- RAF Pilot song

eurohist:

The British comedy show ‘A Bit of Fry and Laurie’, starring Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry. Appearing in this clip is Hugh Laurie whom you may know from the TV show ‘House’.

It is a light take on fascism. What makes a fascist is a topic debated by scholars, but for the purposes of AP Euro, it is easiest to say this:

A dictatorship, totalitarian, far-right government that was strongly against socialism and communism.

eurohist:

Another video of Armstrong and Miller as RAF pilots. Contains some strong language.

The first Geneva Convention was adopted in 1864, the second in 1906 and continued in 1929, and the third in 1929. Both the second and the third took effect in 1931.

The forth, which is what people are ususally referring to when they say ‘the Geneva Convention’, was not created until after, and as a response to, WWII. The pilots in the video should therefore have said the Geneva Conventions.

First Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field, 1864

Second Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea, 1906

Third Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War, 1929

eurohist:

Irrelevent. But he does at one point mention Joan of Arc and claim that she is a ninja.

So that’s cool.

(It’s summer so I’m posting silly stuff.)