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2/9/09, Monday Topic:Holocaust The Nazi screamed at the four men,"Get down!" he roared while pointing an angry finger at them. A rusted silver pail of soapy water was thrown in front of them as they kneeled down obediently, it nearly toppled over. Four dirty sponges were also hurled into their dirt scattered faces. "Clean the disgusting floor that you've just stepped on!" The Nazi shot a disgusted glare at them; yet set behind his mask, there was a smile, a smile from dominance. Yes, Germans love power don't they.

The four Jewish had each gripped on the sponge, dunking them in the pail and wiping it across the concrete ground. A melancholy expression was written on each of their faces. They worked silently, fully aware of the humiliation and mockery set upon the crowd that surrounded them in a thin semi-circle. Yes, the people witnessing this event were also Germans, this was a tour around the camp after all.

How do they, the Jewish, really feel about the pain that we Germans had caused? I was among the small crowd of Germans, though I am German, I do not feel proud of this. What is there to be proud of? The fact that innocent people are tortured and murdered under the hands of Germans is too much to handle. How could we enjoy this? Their race is decreasing because of us, this is our fault. This does not serve any Jew justice, they definitely do not deserve this.

2/10/09, Tuesday Topic: The Great Depression in the U.S. There was a crowd outside, a fairly large one that was standing outside city hall. This crowd was not made up with adults, but children up to the age of ten. Most of them were holding up large white signs that labeled,"Why can't you give my dad a job?" The words did not seem like a child wrote this, the handwriting as well. Perhaps parents were so desperate of finding jobs, that they would use their own children to gain sympathy. It could be; after all, the economy at this state is very poor, everyone needs money. How would the United States turn out in ten years? Will anything improve for us? How are people going to deal with this? Will we survive? This questions should be answered in a few years. I just hope I don't lose my job.

It's two o' clock right now, the sun's glaring harshly down, how much will the children stay? -Click- I'd better get going, before my boss gets angry. Wait until he sees this.....

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2/11/09, Wednesday Topic: World War II, Atomic Bomb I was visiting my grandmother only 10 miles from the city of Hiroshima. There we were, sitting on the the wood flooring, laughing and telling jokes over tea time. Suddenly, we both heard a large, deafening explosion. I ran my way out of the house, sliding open the white doors. What stood in front of me was something I had never seen before. An enormous mushroom shaped cloud was ascending up the sky. A wide pole of black smoke had risen, then came a white ring of smoke, then the mushroom cloud. What was it? Only a few seconds later, did I feel a strong, invisible wave of force push against my chest, knocking me off my feet. The energy was powerful, my head throbbed for hours, thank god grandmother had not come out yet.

It was three days later until I had finally figured out what the cloud was. The United States had dropped an atom bomb onto Hiroshima and another today. The invisible force was the radiation of the bomb's aftermath. Tens of thousands of people had died that day, more today. For the next few weeks, I've been having all kinds of problems. There were unknown cuts and burns front and back, and I was bleeding though I had not hurt myself. What had happened? I went to the docter's office a few hours later and found out...

I was diagnosed with leukemia.