10/14 Questions/Homework

• An eduction system built under a monarchial rule probably led children to learn that authority is always in the right and can never be wrong. It may not have allowed them to learn to think for themselves.
• In the photograph, I see two children playing and making a house out of stacks of German Marks.
• It's interesting seeing a society where their own money was useless. To even think that something would be marked up multiple million marks just from the time it took to enter the store and get something is something you'd expect to find in fiction, yet, while this may be a bit hyperbolic of a statement, it was almost a reality.
• In Metropolis, I see a triptych that depicts the cultural life of 1920s Germany. It's very pixilated and hard to make out, but for sure the middle picture depicts some sort of dance hall. A man plays a saxophone (probably Jazz, noting the time period) and multiple couples dance happily. I would guess that the scene on the left is of a poor group of people on the streets and the scene on the right is one showing a lavish lifestyle Germany was not really living.
• It suggests that while culturally rich, monetarily, Germany was very very poor.
• In the "Fatherland" cartoon, it seemed to represent the German family as one that looks forward, explores, and is civilized, while it seems to portray the Jewish businessmen as greedy and dirty.
• In the following picture, if not provided context, I would have assumed it was a picture taken during our own Great Depression. It even seems to be taken at about the same time. I feel that, at least in the early 1930s, living in Germany was also an experience shared by a good amount of the entire world.
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