History of War

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Writer: Mark Roseman Publisher: Oxford University Press Price: £20 Released: 26 September 2019 In the wake of defeat in the First World War Germany experienced an explosion of radical and revolutionary political movements looking to promote their ow

Military History

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Early in World War II the U.S. Army recognized its need for skilled linguists to interrogate captured enemy troops or conduct covert operations in Axis-controlled areas. Recruits included both Americans possessing German, Italian and Japanese languag

Newsweek

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Three decades ago, Konstanty Gebert broke the law. Constantly. He took part in anti-government protests. He wrote for underground newspapers. And he helped organize a secret university that taught subjects forbidden by the state. But since the fall o

The Atlantic

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The best history provokes cognitive dissonance. And any version of past events that purports definitively to clarify good vs. evil should be viewed as suspect. A case in point is the public outcry over new legislation in Poland that would criminalize

The Atlantic

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Trump’s family-separation policy is horrible, but equating it with genocide is both historically and strategically misguided.

The Guardian

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German researcher’s 1944 book, once owned by Adolf Hitler, lists Jewish residents of US and Canada

NPR

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The United States stripped Jakiw Palij of his citizenship in 2003, but it was difficult finding a country to take him. He was never charged for his involvement in the Holocaust.

Chicago Tribune

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"My mother went in the gas chamber first," the Holocaust survivor recalled. "They took my sister and me to the bathhouse, shaved our heads and gave us striped clothes and wooden shoes. We started asking for our parents and crying, 'Where is Mom? Wher

NPR

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The artifacts will be donated to the Holocaust Museum in Buenos Aires following an investigation. It's not clear how the objects ended up in Argentina, though many prominent Nazis fled there.

Tribune Content Agency Opinions

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A man named Josef Buzhminski told this story at the trial of Adolf Eichmann. It happened on July 27, 1942, at the fence of the Jewish ghetto in Przemysl, Poland. Buzhminski was watching from hiding as an SS man named Kidash seized a Jewish woman and

The Guardian

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Shock greeted the news that German tanks had rolled into Poland on September 1, 1939. But the slaughter of the continent’s Jews that was to follow had long been signalled

Los Angeles Times

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LAS VEGAS - The detention centers where the U.S. government has held migrant children have sparked widespread outrage. But are they really, as some critics have suggested, concentration camps? Celina Biniaz doesn't think so. To her, a concentration c

Los Angeles Times

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LOS ANGELES - When Kaitlyn saw the Snapchat photos of fellow Orange County teenagers posing around a swastika made of red Solo cups, she immediately posted a screenshot to social media, expecting outrage. Instead, she got a mixed response. Some peopl

NPR

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The measure would make it illegal to accuse Poland of complicity in crimes committed by Nazi Germany. First, the controversial legislation will go to constitutional tribunal for review.

Los Angeles Times

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The leaders of the U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington presumably thought they were standing up for truth and fairness when they issued a statement condemning attempts to draw analogies between the Holocaust and contemporary American politics - notab

Literary Hub

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Somewhere in the middle of the seven years I spent writing my novel, The Women in the Castle, I became aware of a dismaying trend. People had “WWII fatigue.” Before they found out I was at work on a novel about that time, or more precisely about the

Hi Fi News

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www.nativedsd.com; COBRA0065 This set takes its title from Elie Wiesel’s narrative of his experiences during the Holocaust (2020 marks the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz), and the majority of the works here are by composers who died

NPR

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"People should look at this place and think about our moral responsibility," says Pawel Sawicki, a longtime guide at the Auschwitz museum in Poland.

Chicago magazine

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■ For most of his life, longtime Naperville resident Isaac Levendel had no idea what had happened to his mother, Sarah, after she disappeared from where they were living in rural France in 1944, when he was 7. They were both registered Jews under the

World War II

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AMERICANS AND THE HOLOCAUST United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC. Open through 2021; no tickets required; ages 11 and up. COULD THE UNITED STATES have stopped the Holocaust? The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum attempts to answer thi

History of War

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Director: Claude Lanzmann Distributor: Eureka Released: 18 February 2019 Claude Lanzmann passed away in July 2018, aged 92. His final film, Shoah: The Four Sisters, originally made for (and broadcast on) French television earlier in 2018, is focused

NPR

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"You just had to ignore the fear in your gut and push it away, become someone else," recalls one Jewish survivor, now 94. "I had to act like a regular Berliner. And this is what saved me in the end."

BBC History Magazine

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Barrister and TV presenter ROBERT RINDER tells us about his two-part documentary dealing with the legacy of the Holocaust and its impact on his family – and why it’s vital to talk about the trauma How did My Family, the Holocaust and Me come about? I

BBC History Magazine

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In your interesting Why Did the Allies Win WWII? debate (May), a better question to pose might have been: “Why did Germany lose WWII?” Here, as in most cases, the outcome was determined by which side had the strongest economic and logistical capacity

Literary Hub

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Translated by Tim Wilkinson January 1, 2001 New year: the old one was difficult, and fairly unproductive, interspersed with ugly maladies, one of which (Parkinson’s disease) will stay with me to the end of my days, the “result” of which is this wonde

STAT

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Photographs that establish an "I-Thou" relationship between the photographer and the subject can have immense healing power.

Los Angeles Times

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled against the heirs of Jewish art dealers who were pressured to sell medieval artifacts to Nazi leaders during the 1930s, holding that Germany is shielded by the principle of “sovereign immunity.” In a

Los Angeles Times

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Nothing stays above politics forever, not even the Holocaust. Last week, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas was caught spewing anti-Semitic vitriol, including the notion that Jews were responsible for the Holocaust. The denunciations from American Jewi

The Guardian

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For 50 years, Ruzena Levy could not speak of the horrors she endured and witnessed in the Nazi death camps. On arriving at Auschwitz at the age of 13, she was ordered to turn left; her mother, clutching her youngest child in her arms, was told to go

History of War

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Like most western countries, Christmas is widely celebrated in the Netherlands, and the Dutch even have two versions of Father Christmas, who are celebrated on both 5 and 24 December. Nevertheless, ‘goodwill to all men’ was particularly hard to come