So i have been up for the past 5 hours reading all about the rise of Hitler to try & gain some background knowledge of why he had such homophobic views along with well know fact of being a campaigner for antisemitism and so far i am only as far as him getting into full power around 1933 with the enabling bill that gave him dictational powers. Now i have never claimed to hold any knowledge of political battles past or present so this has been a reeducating experience for me, and if i am honest one i was scared to take on. When in talks with Clyde about my final major project i never thought it would take this direction and when this topic came up i admit i was initially not very keen to do a project that was based on such rooted and detailed facts based around political wars, but i have to now say that i am very pleased it has taken this route, i am questioning my knowledge as an individual and learning things that i have always wanted to shy away from through lack of knowledge. As an person and a graphic designer i should be learning about my surroundings, past and present, facing a few fears along the way.
Im finding this research aspect of my project fascinating, i am sat here reading about one of the most hated men of our times, one that i should initially feel hatred towards as a mark of respect for the treatment towards individuals of the same sexual orientation as myself, but as i sit here reading about his finely tuned plans of domination & his use of propaganda i cant but admire him as much as it cuts me up. For an individual to be so narrow minded, hateful & inhuman, he had the tactics of a genius & i can see how people fell for it.
I want to close my book & throw it across the room, but i just cant stop reading on.....
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