大象传媒

I am currently a completing MA student doing German History and Philosophy at Royal Holloway college, London University. My interest in World War Two stems from being a British citizen with a long and proud German ancestry. This has given me, I think, a uniquely clear-sighted perspective of both sides of a uniquely terrible conflict. Already as a boy I used to read military histories voraciously. At first, like all boys, my interest was in the material side of war, tanks, weapons, glossy photos of destruction etc... With age and hopefully maturity I have come to view the conflict in terms of its effects on our society. Most interesting for example is how the conflict spurred the development of our modern welfare state. How it was fought to affect some kind of lasting changes, to both British and German society. It seems fascinating that the conflict could touch the depths of depravity and at the same time scale the heights of idealistic conviction.