By Kyle Klaus
Today we spent the day at the Wansee conference house, a beautiful landscape with a pristine lake adjacent. For a place that held some of the worlds most evil people it was a surprisingly lovely house, had I not known what had happened in there I would love to live there. Unfortunately the beauty was short lived and the information became stale. We didn’t really have much time to go over what was actually said at the conference because we spent too long picking what we wanted to eat. It seems most of us were under the impression Gabe would be our tour guide filled with his usual wit, instead we were given a tour by a rather dull, yet highly intelligent German man. I do not blame him for his rather lack luster approach to German history because as Gabe said “the Nazi’s killed off all the funny ones”. What was even more surprising was that we were expected to give our own presentation to the group. I found this to be rather annoying because in class we usually get a couple days or weeks to put together a presentation, granted this was a much less stressful presentation, but we only got an hour. Furthermore, I found it strange that the historian was making us present to him on a topic that we were there to learn about in the first place. I understand that information might resonate with us more if we do the research ourselves, but that is usually in a classroom setting that gives us more than a couple hours of warning. Overall the day was on the dull side and I think we all couldn’t wait for Gabe to take back the reigns.
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