I'm on the bus on the way to munich right now and so far my week in southern germany has been amazing and probably my favorite days since I've been in europe. Yesterday we took a tour of nuremberg in the morning and then went to the nazi documentation center in the afternoon. Its one thing to read and learn about the holocaust and the nazis in school and at our monuments but to be here where history really happened is really indescribable. We went to zeppelinfeld and stood in the spot where hitler stood and that's something that you don't get from reading books or visitng museums. That afternoon we visited the nazi documentation center which I really found fascinating. It was so interesting because the common theme seemed to be hitler's use of propaganda to slowly convince people to follow him and build himself into a god. he became fuhrer, chancellor, and president eventually. And he was ultimately trying to convince the people he was their savior. It was interesting to think about how someone could convince such a huge amount of people to almost worship him and follow him blindly, but it really can happen. And we think it could never happen to us, but these were people just like us and when you are desperate for a job and any means to take care of your family, there's no telling what could happen and it was probably a population of people experiencing this and they just turned a blind eye to the horror that was occurring to some of their own neighbors. It talks in the bible about the antichrist and one day he will come and promise peace and unity to the world and he will be so convincing that many will follow him and that's scary to think about and we think it never could but unless we are aware of the past and alert then we to can be susceptible. So all in all, learning more about this culture that hitler was creating really makes me think about how important that we as people are discerning as to what we really take to heart.