The First World War

This is video about WWI

Ana Frank. The diary.

Ana Frank is well known as the Jewish girl who wrote her diary while confined for two years, hiding away from the Nazis in the Netherlands. The book is rich in detail about everyday life and routines in those terrible and claustrophobic circumstances, as well as sprinkled with angry adolescence and Ana´s sense of humour. 

 Other beatiful and moving stories about children´s experience during WW2 and the Nazi persecution of the Jews that you could read or watch film adaptations: 

When Hitler stole Pink rabbit, by Judith Kerr 

A bag of marbles, by Joseph Joffo 

The boy in the striped pyjamas, by John Boyne 

 To get to know Ana Frank better, we can visit the website in Amsterdam, Ana Frank´s House. https://www.annefrank.org/es/ana-frank/ 

We can also watch a short video about the Diary:

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The Spanish Civil War

You can watch this video about the Spanish Civil war:

This is the explanation by professor Julian Casanova of the Spanish Civil War

Explicación de la Guerra Civil Española por el profesor Julián Casanova

Spain´s part in WW2. La División Azul y la Nueve de Lecleq.

Wach these videos about Spain´s part in WW2. Hope you enjoy them. I will be giving you some questions to answer about them.

The Battle of Stalingrad

This is a poem by Bertold Bretch

“First of all, they came to take the gypsies
and I was happy because they pilfered.
Then they came to take the Jews and I said nothing,
because they were unpleasant to me.
Then they came to take homosexuals,
and I was relieved, because they were annoying me.
Then they came to take the Communists,
and I said nothing because I was not a Communist.
One day they came to take me,
and there was nobody left to protest.

Bertold Brecht, inspired by Emil Gustav Friedrich Martin Niemöller”

How climate made History

This documentary shows us the influence climatic changes have been behind historical changes: draughts that lead to the Neolithic or sudden drops in temperature that lead to the Thirty Year War.