Themes Of Suffering And Pride Of The German People

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I would like to note that I will frame this short essay as a supplement to my much more thorough research paper on a related topic. Here, I will give a narrower, and more condensed version that will primarily focus on themes of suffering and pride of the German people. The essay will mostly concentrate on the period of allied victory and occupation of Germany, as well as the period of the Federal Republic of Germany. The purpose of this essay will be to examine the effects and implications these two events of the 20th century had on the German people, and how the themes of pride and suffering can be inferred from those two events. Let us start with the themes of pride. During the period of allied occupation, one of the first ways that German