Western Civilization II / Unit 17 WC2 1609 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Home Fronts: Annihilation, Bombing, Rationing, Rosie, and Slavery in the Reich
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The idea
Bombers reached civilians far from any front, and Germany waged a war of annihilation on Soviet civilians, seventeen million dead, the anchor says. Britain rationed butter to two ounces; women were conscripted in Britain and Russia and riveted in America. Eight million slaves labored inside the Reich.
In practice
Slavery enforced by lethal violence, the anchor's word.
Where people slip
Figures the anchor's; Rosie the witness's.
Your place on the trail
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