Kaiser Wilhelm II A place in the Sun, 1901

The theme of the reading was Germany justifying their reasoning for having more ships on the water. " The more Germans go out upon the waters, whether it be in races or regattas, whether it be in journeys across the ocean, or in the service of the battle flag, so much the better it will be for us." This backs what the theme is of the reading. This stuck out to me because it was like Germany was saying that they did not care what anyone thought about what they were doing, they were going to do what they wanted. Did Germany really have the right to do what they did? If they did then why do they have to say why they are doing it? these questions show that they really did not have the right  to do what they did.

This got me to thinking about how if one country does this then who is to stop every country from doing the exact same thing? it goes to the facet of protecting your own. So if one country is building up their military then you are going to do the same exact thing because you do not want them to beat you. Once you build up your military, they will build theirs up more and this will never end and it will cause more problems that help. It will also make more problems than it answers.

This connects to today with how they government is now because they do what they want but once someone says something against what they are doing, they have to back up what they are doing. They become defensive about what they are doing. When this happen most of the time it means that you are hiding the real reason behind what you are doing. thus making you come up with a story or lie of why you are doing it. Not everyone will agree with what is going on but you can not cave to what others think because if you do it will just make it look like you are hiding something. They may not be right themselves.

This relates to the text with Hitler when comes to power he does not care about the limitation that were put on Germany. He does what he wants to do to protect his country. It was his job to help Germany out of what others had put her into. They need to help themselves because it is their right to help their country. the one thing that is different is in the reading they are backing up what they are saying but with Hitler, he just does what he wants and does not care what others think about what he is doing.