And that was our story about time travelling :)
Even thought it was quite scary at times, I think we all enjoyed it, especially meeting, or well, we did not really meet anyone, but seeing all of these important people of history. It was a great experience, sadly, I believe, one that can not be done again..
I hope you all enjoy our blog and stories about time travelling, we sure did! :)
Sunday, June 5, 2011
Friday, June 3, 2011
A letter to the prime minister of France
Once again, but we hoped for the last time, we arrived in another time period - Britain 1923!
We arrived in an office from which we exited quite fast since we were scared that someone would come inside. When we were outside, we overheard a conversation between the writer of the French ambassador and a friend of his. He talked about his decision concerning the occupation of the Ruhr, the harsh sanctions and high reparations. We figured that if we could somehow manipulate that letter, France might not be that harsh with Germany. Frederike came up with the idea that we should somehow replace the writer with herself. Thus, we tricked the writer into a room and locked it, took his pen and paper and sent Frederike as the new writer to the ambassador. After he had dictated the original letter to her, we went and wrote a completely new letter, below you can see the two letters, we decided it would be a good memory to recopy them for later :)
The ambassador's original letter was this:
Dear Monsieur Poincare
I think your decision to occupy Ruhr has the potential. However, I talked to the British premier and he does not fully support my idea because he worries about the balance of power and that the occupation might create a political tension between the main European countries. However, I personally support the decision and think we must act as soon as possible. There is nothing else we can do in this situation. We cannot impose any sanctions because Germany will just ignore them. I know this is not so diplomatic, but even in the modern world brutal force is still use full political tool. We must seize the coal and steel mines and confiscate the raw materials as a repayment. Yes, this will have consequences, but everything can be regulated and dealed with later.
Commence to operation whenever you think is the right time Monsieur Poincare. You have my full support in this cause.
Yours,
French Ambassador in Britain
Frederike changed it to this one:
Dear Monsieur Poincare
In my opinion we must deal with this issue in a rather more diplomatic way. The occupation of Ruhr will obviously be profitable thus in a short term. Yet, I think that in a long term this is bad for France because by occupying Ruhr we shift the balance of power towards France. Now, that is also good because we will become the dominant nation on the continental Europe, yet this Will also produce unfavorable political tension. I talked to the British foreign minister and he said that Britain wants to put harsher sanctions on Germany. The British who favors the balance of power so much will obviously not support the occupation and do not forget that Wilson will be with the British in this case as well. The public opinion in Germany will promote nationalistic organisation and extremist groups that might threaten our national security.
In my opinion we must look at the core of the problem, if Germany cannot repay us because we are applying too much pressure then we must lower it to find an alternative. occupation will not solve the problem Monsieur Poincare that is for sure.
Best regards,
The French Ambassador of London
We thought that by changing the letter from the one encouraging the occupation of Ruhr to the one that discourages it by providing substantial support
We arrived in an office from which we exited quite fast since we were scared that someone would come inside. When we were outside, we overheard a conversation between the writer of the French ambassador and a friend of his. He talked about his decision concerning the occupation of the Ruhr, the harsh sanctions and high reparations. We figured that if we could somehow manipulate that letter, France might not be that harsh with Germany. Frederike came up with the idea that we should somehow replace the writer with herself. Thus, we tricked the writer into a room and locked it, took his pen and paper and sent Frederike as the new writer to the ambassador. After he had dictated the original letter to her, we went and wrote a completely new letter, below you can see the two letters, we decided it would be a good memory to recopy them for later :)
The ambassador's original letter was this:
Dear Monsieur Poincare
I think your decision to occupy Ruhr has the potential. However, I talked to the British premier and he does not fully support my idea because he worries about the balance of power and that the occupation might create a political tension between the main European countries. However, I personally support the decision and think we must act as soon as possible. There is nothing else we can do in this situation. We cannot impose any sanctions because Germany will just ignore them. I know this is not so diplomatic, but even in the modern world brutal force is still use full political tool. We must seize the coal and steel mines and confiscate the raw materials as a repayment. Yes, this will have consequences, but everything can be regulated and dealed with later.
Commence to operation whenever you think is the right time Monsieur Poincare. You have my full support in this cause.
Yours,
French Ambassador in Britain
Frederike changed it to this one:
Dear Monsieur Poincare
In my opinion we must deal with this issue in a rather more diplomatic way. The occupation of Ruhr will obviously be profitable thus in a short term. Yet, I think that in a long term this is bad for France because by occupying Ruhr we shift the balance of power towards France. Now, that is also good because we will become the dominant nation on the continental Europe, yet this Will also produce unfavorable political tension. I talked to the British foreign minister and he said that Britain wants to put harsher sanctions on Germany. The British who favors the balance of power so much will obviously not support the occupation and do not forget that Wilson will be with the British in this case as well. The public opinion in Germany will promote nationalistic organisation and extremist groups that might threaten our national security.
In my opinion we must look at the core of the problem, if Germany cannot repay us because we are applying too much pressure then we must lower it to find an alternative. occupation will not solve the problem Monsieur Poincare that is for sure.
Best regards,
The French Ambassador of London
We thought that by changing the letter from the one encouraging the occupation of Ruhr to the one that discourages it by providing substantial support
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Paris Peace conference -
When we arrived in our new destination, we were hidden behind chairs when Frederike saw the Eiffel Tower through the window. We were in Paris. Suddenly we heard people talking. We hid behind a shelf and watched the two men talk. It was George Clemenceau, the French prime minster and Aristide. They were talking about the meeting, and Clemenceau said that he wanted to increase the sanctions set on Germany. However, it seemed that Aristide did not want to put that harsh sanctions on Germany. When the two went outside for a smoke, Frederike remembered that she had some pretty strong pain killers with her that actually cause a headache if you take two of them, so we decided to put some into Cleamenceau's coffee so he would get a headache. Our plan worked, after they finished their discussion and shortly after Aristide had left, George phoned him again saying that Aristide should replace him at the meeting since his headache is killing him. We had succeeded, Aristide would go to the meeting and reveal his opinion and not Clemenceaus! As we can see from our historybooks, he really did state his opinion and demanded less reparations from Germany.
After yet again another successful mission we saw that we still had 15 minutes left to spend in the past so we decided to give it another try and turn the knob one more time...
After yet again another successful mission we saw that we still had 15 minutes left to spend in the past so we decided to give it another try and turn the knob one more time...
Attack on Pearl Harbor/Johnston Island
After we left 1920 Vienna, we had hoped to get back home however, we ended up being in 1941 Japan..
We stumbled into a meeting of generals who were discussing the attack on Pearl harbor which occurred on the 7.th of December 1941. Luckily they did not see us and we had Aleks with us who understands a bit of Japanese. At one point they said they were going to go and tell the pilots and Captains about their plan. We took this chance to take a closer look at the map. The generals had put needles into the starting, mid and end point of their attack. We were not sure if our plan would succeed but we decided to give it a try anyways. We took the needle away from Hawaii/Pearl Harbor and we put it into Johnston Island. Shortly after we were done, the pilots and captain came in to take a look at the map. We were so lucky that they did not notice anything.
With this move, we prevented America from declaring war on Japan. Of course we know that we were probably the cause of some deaths on the Johnston Island, but there would have been deaths on either island and there were less on the Johnston Island. The inhabitants from the Johnston Island were most probably not as happy about the attack as we were, which is why they demanded reparations for the attack. Japan was willing to pay since they did not plan on attacking Johnston Island and it seemed to be fairly embarassing for them.
I guess I can say that this was a very successful voyage for us and also for the whole world! :)
We stumbled into a meeting of generals who were discussing the attack on Pearl harbor which occurred on the 7.th of December 1941. Luckily they did not see us and we had Aleks with us who understands a bit of Japanese. At one point they said they were going to go and tell the pilots and Captains about their plan. We took this chance to take a closer look at the map. The generals had put needles into the starting, mid and end point of their attack. We were not sure if our plan would succeed but we decided to give it a try anyways. We took the needle away from Hawaii/Pearl Harbor and we put it into Johnston Island. Shortly after we were done, the pilots and captain came in to take a look at the map. We were so lucky that they did not notice anything.
With this move, we prevented America from declaring war on Japan. Of course we know that we were probably the cause of some deaths on the Johnston Island, but there would have been deaths on either island and there were less on the Johnston Island. The inhabitants from the Johnston Island were most probably not as happy about the attack as we were, which is why they demanded reparations for the attack. Japan was willing to pay since they did not plan on attacking Johnston Island and it seemed to be fairly embarassing for them.
I guess I can say that this was a very successful voyage for us and also for the whole world! :)
Vienna Art Acedemy!
Unbelievable- the time machine brought us back to 1920! We found a poster, announcing an exhibition showing the works of the applicants for the next semester at the Vienna Art Academy. We looked at the amazing paintings and suddenly I saw a painting with Adolf Hitler's name underneath it. We were pretty shocked but then we realized that 1920 was when Hitler was rejected from the Vienna Art Academy. We heard some footsteps coming closer to us, so we quickly had to run away. We were hiding behind a sofa when we saw two women coming with clipboards in their hands. They turned out to be the judges of the exhibition and were writing down who they would want to accept and who not. This was when we heard that they did not like Hitler's picture, they did not want to accept him. After they had left we realised that we had to give it a try and change history. We decided to switch Hitlers name with the name of the artist who they would accept. It was just in time because we heard them coming back already. They went over the paintings once more to write down who they had accepted. As we discovered later, our plan had worked. They put up a list with the names of the winners - Adolf Hitler was on the list. Our plan had succeeded.
Because of our work, we prevented Hitler from becoming a politician. Of course you do not know that he would have become Germany's leader and he would have caused WWII to outbreak, but that is how it actually was. Due to our exchange of the painting, Hitler was accepted into the Academy and never entered politics.
We will post more about our special trip soon. There is so much to look at here!
Because of our work, we prevented Hitler from becoming a politician. Of course you do not know that he would have become Germany's leader and he would have caused WWII to outbreak, but that is how it actually was. Due to our exchange of the painting, Hitler was accepted into the Academy and never entered politics.
We will post more about our special trip soon. There is so much to look at here!
Marco Polo bridge Incident - 1937
That time we thought we would finalyl be back to the forest and our time, yet were teleported to some room that looked like a military forest. Suddenly a man in a uniform came into a room holding a glass of water and some pills. Frederike recognized the man in a uniform as Tashiro, who was a leutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army - the one responsible for keeping the stalemate between the Japanese and the Chinese forces in the recent time. Tashiro sat down on the red chair and was about to drink his medicine, but then suddenly someone knocked on the door. Tashiro puts his glass and pills down and walks outside to talk to the fellow officer. Right at the moment when Tashiro left the room, an unknown man that was apparently hiding behind the bookshelf quickly slipped through the room and swapped the Tashiro's pills with different ones and runs out of the room. Laura and Frederike realized that they must not let Tashiro die, and so they decided to swap the pills back to the ones Tashiro had. They have done that just in time; Tashiro came back into the office and took his pills. Meanwhile, Laura and Frederike used the time machine to get out of that place.
In real history Lieutenant General Tashiro dies from a heart attack, presumably the cause was natural although the controversy lies in the fact that Tashiro was in charge of the stalemate and the Japanese High Command wanted to start the massive operation against China as fast a possible so some think that the Tashiro's death was intended.
We thought that preventing Lieutenant General Tashiro from dying will cause:
- The stalemate between Japan and China to continue
- Japanese forces having no pretext for going to full scale war with China
- No large scale conflict to happen in the Asian region
Unfortunately not everything worked out as planned and our predictions were partly false:
- Even though, the stalemate continued for two more months, the Japanese government still invaded China under a new pretext, which was that China was promoting nationalism and anti-Japanese movements and organisations.
A new discovery!
One day, when we were hanging out in the park, we suddenly stumbled upon a rather weird looking contraption. It had a note attached to it that said:
A long time ago I accidently developed this machine. It allows people to travel back in time. This is a fairly interesting and entertaining process. However, one must be careful using this device, since it can cause great problems. Do not travel back for longer than an hour, or you might get stuck in the past. Close your eyes when you are ready to start and switch on the machine. Count until three and turn the knob. The more you turn it the further you will travel. Enjoy your trip. But remember, you only have one hour…
At first we could not believe it and thought it was somekind of a joke. Nevertheless we decided to follow the instructions mentioned in the note...
At first we could not believe it and thought it was somekind of a joke. Nevertheless we decided to follow the instructions mentioned in the note...
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