So many to choose from: How Germany survived Harris' bombing campaign. How so many people could turn a blind eye to Hitler sending all those people to their death. How the Poles held out from August to October in the Warsaw Uprising of 1944. How America let Roosevelt's cabinet and our agencies become full of communist (although we don't have to look to far to see how that happens). How Americans produced more than anyone at anytime. Just a few thoughts. :-)
All interesting suggestions. A course in this upcoming semester I’m taking is on nothing but the holocaust. I figure it will provide some interesting things for these threads, but at the same time I expect the 600 level course to be one of the hardest ones I’ll take. Not only from a work load perspective but from an emotional one too. I did a short research paper on the rape of Nanjing in my first semester and even though it was a small paper when you really dig into these events there is a lot of stuff that is out there that you just don’t here about because it just isn’t pleasant in any context.
I’m staying away from political topics for my thesis since I want to write as objective paper as I can and I know that it would be harder to keep bias out of a political paper. I mean why make it harder than you have to right?