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93What Most Germans Knew About the Nazi Concentration Camp System Part -- II
In their oral history testimonies, letters, questionnaires, interviews, and journals American soldiers explain why they did not accept German protestations of ignorance and innocence. GIs from the 42nd, 45th, 71st, 88th, and 103rd Infantry Divisions, and the 11th Armored Division, and the 69th Signal Battalion all referred to the incredible odor emanating from the Nazi concentration camps.
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90Japanese Internment
December 7, 1941, was “a date which will live in infamy” as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt stated in his speech to Congress, when he declared war against Japan. Japan had attacked Pearl Harbor in the islands of Hawaii. Within 24...
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90American GI's and German Soldiers
Considering that America was engaged in a war against Germany, American soldiers, with few exceptions, entertained fairly positive, even sympathetic feelings for German soldiers and civilians. After the war veterans were asked to name their favorite European country. It is illustrative that four out of five GIs named Germany as their favorite European country.
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84The Doomsday Survival Kit
This is a hip version on how to prepare for doomsday. A little humor and a lot of facts on how to survive the end of the world
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85WWII: The Final Solution
Over half a century ago, over a period of four years, approximately eleven million people were systematically executed. The result of Adolf Hitler’s ‘Final Solution to the Jewish Question,’ the Holocaust...
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86Dachau - First German Concentration Camp
Sadly, also located on the Romantic Road in Germany is Dachau Concentration Camp from WWII.
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86A Shameful Repetition of History: Japanese Interment Camps
The results of World War II are some of the most significant in history. One of the consequences of America's going to war with Japan, however, is often overlooked in many textbooks and unknown to numbers of people. Multiple Japanese Americans or...
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86Czechoslovakia Under Soviet Rule: Personalizing History
Heda Margolius Kovaly, living in Eastern Europe, survived the Nazi regime in the 1940's and the the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia during the 1950's and 1960's. Sadly, her husband and many of her friend fell victim to Stalin's terror.
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85Two novels about racism
A review of two novels which paint in stark yet moving details the dreadful evil of racism, its effects on ordinary people trying to live their ordinary lives, and the extraordinary things that racism imposes on them.
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83The Boston Holocaust Memorial
A review of the Boston Holocaust Memorial, a stunning monument that reflects both the cruelties humankind is capable of and the power of the human spirit.
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