Berlin day 3.
Gabe is back in action and was full of energy today at our museums.
The first museum I visited was one commemorating Otto Weidts workshop for the blind. He was a convinced Pacifist and thought very little of the Nazis. After going nearly blind he started a workshop for the blind. making brushes. He made it a purpose to protect his employees; most of which were blind deaf and Jewish. He helped them by bribing officers, getting them food and he even went as far as Hiding them in his own workshop which put him at great personal danger. He had a helper circle or several friends who helped to obtain food, hide Jews as well as a doctor who treated this in need. Because his Brushes were used by the Wermachant he saves his employees my arguing their products are vital for the war. During the war he saved the lives of several Jewish persons that he employed. It is men like him that give us faith in the human spirit in times of strife. After he war he started a home for children and elderly After the war. It is one of the first places of its kind
The Pergamum museum is one of the largest museums in the world it is just a little under the reader because it is still under repair from the Second World War. Mostly due to the fact that the soviets didn’t seem it necessary to fix it.
We learned that around 1200 bc beer is invented in Mesopotamia. Thus marking the begging of civilization and the end of hunter gatherer society.
The Assyrians have the first standing army, which enabled them to conquer the Middle East; save Jerusalem, after some times their civilization falls and they are replaced by the Babylonians.
The ancient city of Babylon was built on the backs of Jewish slaves they stayed until 544 BC. After being enslaved by the Babylonians they make their way back to present day is real. And thus the Jews persevere.
But In 132 ad Romans kick Jews out of the middle east and send them to Europe and then their prosecution continues as civilization after civilization makes them a scapegoat and the victim of prosecution. Which gives them the perfect rouse to be Hitlers scapegoat for Nazi Germany.
We had some free time this afternoon, in order to get some much needed laundry done, get some schoolwork done and catch up on sleep.
