November 2010
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October 2010
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“In September 1940 the bombing began in earnest. For a week the RAF pounded the...”
– Roger Moorhouse’s “Berlin at War,” reviewed by Jonathan Yardley
Why is This GOP House Candidate Dressed as a Nazi? →
dailybrainfood:
An election year already notable for its menagerie of extreme and unusual candidates can add another one:Rich Iott, the Republican nominee for Congress from Ohio’s 9th District, and a Tea Party favorite, who for years donned a German Waffen SS uniform and participated in Nazi re-enactments.
Iott, whose district lies in Northwest Ohio, was involved with a group that calls...
September 2010
7 posts
“This is one of the broad themes of “1939”: that as the crisis grew...”
– Jonathan Yardley - Review of Richard Overy’s “1939: Countdown to War”
150 Auschwitz surgical instruments found in nearby... →
“Describing it as “one of the greatest discoveries in recent years”, Bartosz Bartyzel said the instruments were most likely used by the physician Carl Clauberg.”
[No mention of why they were in that home, or why/how the instruments haven’t been identified before now.]
August 2010
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July 2010
10 posts
"This is a joke, isn't it?" My Ex-Nazi Father's...
aveavelucifer:
by MaikeH
MaikeH’s diary :: ::
Whenever Pope Benedict comes up in conversation, someone (at least here in America) will bring up his Hitler Youth past. Actually, though, he was a rather reluctant member (automatically enrolled by being a public school student) who went to meetings only if he absolutely had to. He did not turn into Germany’s equivalent of Pat Robertson...
The Week - Hitler in Advertising: A Timeline →
This timeline dates the takeoff of Hitler-as-social meme to the movie ‘Downfall’/’Der Untergang’ in 2006.
“The Medal of Honor was presented by President Bill Clinton, with retired Gen....”
– Courtland Milloy - WWII hero Vernon Baker fought fascism over there, racism at home
April 2010
9 posts
Database of 21,000 artworks labeled "degenerate"... →
Eight years of research yields “Entartete Kunst” online database. Click on the “zur Datenbank” link on the right to search for artworks.
1939-1945: A Soldier's War | CBC Archives →
Several CBC Radio clips about and of Canadian soldiers in Europe during WWII.
Sample titles: “The first Canadians into Berlin”, “Dawn patrol”, “Losing your nerve”.
WatchArthur Mainzer, a young cameraman with the Army in 1945 captured one of the most chilling moments of the liberation: American authorities forcing German townsfolk who lived near the camps to see the atrocities. With a 16mm Kodachrome movie camera, Mainzer recorded the reaction of residents of the town of Weimar who lived near the Buchenwald concentration camp.
via The Washington Post:...
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January 2010
4 posts
“If the whole world were soldiers, what would become of our civilization?”
– Erwin Rommel
December 2009
16 posts
“Yesterday, our president mused about the inevitability of war, war’s...”
– Congressman Kucinich’s Response to President Obama’s “Just War” Doctrine
(via danielholter: unburyingthelead)
“We must begin by acknowledging the hard truth: We will not eradicate violent conflict in our lifetimes. There will be times when nations — acting individually or in concert — will find...