Day 3: Class at the Chataeu

Sunday was definitely a lazy day full of class. We were able to sleep in an extra hour and a half, but had to get up to eat breakfast and make sandwiches to have later on for lunch. At 11 am we had class that lasted quite a while. We went over Jews in Eastern and Western Europe, lots of information on Germany and the Weinar Republic, and then Hitler himself. Hitler was interesting to learn about. He was never at the top of his class in grade school in Austria, in fact he was at the bottom of the class. He wanted to be an artist, something I had never known about Hitler. His watercolors were actually very good, but interestingly he did not know how to draw the human form well. He rarely put humans in his paintings. He talked of how Hitler made his political strides to power and about the Nationalist Social Party (Nazis). It was a lot of information over the course of a few hours, but very interesting.

We went to dinner at the little restaurant outside of the Chateau. This time we had salad and quish, then a meat (not sure what it was) and vegetables, and then an amazing cherry cobbler/pie. We ordered wine with our dinner and had a hard time figuring out which wine to order and how to speak to the waitress. Thankfully things worked out in the end.

After dinner we went back to the classroom to watch "Triumph of the Will", a Nazi propaganda film that Hitler commissioned in 1934. I was a little tired after dinner and fell asleep for a bit, but it was extremely repetitive. It was about Hitler arriving to Nuremberg. It showed all the excited women and young Aryan children fawning over Hitler's arrival. There were rallies where he made speeches talking about God, victory, the enemy, the rebirth of Germany, etc. He was a very generalizing speaker, never speaking of one specific thing, but hinting at a broad range of ideas. The film was interesting, but longgg. After that we all hung out for a while and went to bed, ready to get up Monday for our crash course in French at 9am!