In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Europe was walking on the edge. The risk of war had become a real possibility and no one moved a finger to try to zoom out. All states had plans of conquest, all in some way or another aspired to sharing part of the booty, that was the reality .
World War I was not the result of human irrationality, but a trend or drift inevitably became the tangle of political and economic interests were at stake on the international stage. The initiative was in the hands of Germany in August 1914, but no doubt a few years later the country had taken the Triple Entente.
In 1914, except to destroy the enemy country, there was no common view on how to make peace. The people, tired of such suffering, we look forward to the end of the war, but unfortunately when diplomats established the conditions for peace in World War I, also determined the causes of the next war: World War II .
No people had earnings durable, all lost so they would not recover for a long time. The hatred and anger took over entire towns that had previously competed in a relatively peaceful. The period between 1918 and 1923 was characterized by an acute depression.
The end of the war ended with a profound transformation of Europe into its internal structure, economic, political and social. The war caused a tremendous commotion in humanity.
World War I had been to date, the most horrendous experience modern civilization. In some parts of Europe had claimed the lives of one in four young people, and generations that matured during the decades of 20 and 30, were counted that were able to understand why they had fought. The experience created a trauma in the minds of most people who had taken part in it, and this fact is of fundamental importance for understanding the events that were to happen in the decades that were to come. For these reasons, the French philosopher Thérèse Delpech defined the twentieth century to the German word Herzelend , meaning "sorrow of heart , "designating a form of melancholy and weakening of the emotional part of most men of the last century .
The period between 1914 and 1945 has been often termed the Thirty Years War of the twentieth century . In no other period, there was so many people killed, property destroyed or wasted so much national wealth for economically unproductive purposes. The so-called war period of the twenties and thirties can hardly be considered as a time of peace, as already said Juan Pablo II: " anyone have any illusions that the mere absence of war, even as desirable, is synonymous with real peace." On the contrary it was, as the French General Foch prophetically predicted the end of World War I, a "truce twenty years, interrupted by eruptions of nationalist animosities, sporadic violence and rivalries of great power that paved the road to World War II .
This brief synopsis of what has been the first half of the twentieth century is not intended to satisfy yearnings of historical knowledge, but rather to prepare the ground for the topic you want to start trying.
Mucha is the literature that analyzes the world wars, there are many references to the national interests of the actors involved, the different objectives that States had in those days, the amount of money spent on weapons, property destroyed, bombed cities, millions of wounded, the millions of deaths ... However, the documents dealing with the human condition in those years are too monstrous, or rather, not that there were no but, who knows why, have not been disclosed, nor rooted in the depths of every citizen of this world.
is for this reason that the idea of \u200b\u200bthis special show succinctly how certain men who have lived and experienced these wars have been able to express through art their sadness, suffering, thinking, confusion and hope, not they belonged only to them but to all people of good will of the twentieth century.
In very simple words, art is the activity through which humans express ideas, emotions or, in general, a world view, through plastic, linguistic, sound, or mixed ... Art expresses perceptions and feelings that human beings have not be explained otherwise . Thus, man has made known his view of the world through art, channeling their thoughts and feelings through music, drawing and painting, literature, theater or cinema ...
From here leave our unit of analysis, how certain men of the first half of the twentieth century have channeled their feelings and thoughts through different art forms, and how we see through his various works, the impact occurred the World Wars in European societies, because policy decisions are born and in turn affect society .
After this brief introduction, we invite you to travel to Europe, the period 1914-1945, where the man was not only the wolf man, but the only hope to stop such madness.
This special time will be divided into seven analysis works (the order of the same has been determined by the date which were published or were inspired):
· Guernica by Pablo Picasso.
· Men future of Bertolt Brecht.
· Schindler's List , by Steven Spielberg.
· Life is beautiful , Roberto Benigni.
· The Great Dictator of Charles Chaplin.
· If this is a man of Primo Levi.
· The choir , Christophe Barratier.
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