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On the morning of October 6, 1943, the mountain village of Kali Sykia fell completely silent. The men had vanished into the ravines; only the women, children, and the elderly remained. By nightfall, thirteen people were dead—trapped inside their own homes as the wood was barricaded from the outside and set alight. Twelve were women,…
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A blog by my good friend Grant Gochin. Lithuania’s Genocide Centre never examined the judgment it used to defend a Holocaust collaborator. Now it is a European partner teaching source criticism. Vladimir Putin justified his invasion of Ukraine by claiming to protect people from genocide. On 16 March 2022 the International Court of Justice ordered…
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One of the most cruelest crimes committed by the Japanese Imperial Army during WWII, was the Bataan Death March. It was a march in the Philippines of some 66 miles (106 km) that 76,000 prisoners of war (66,000 Filipinos, 10,000 Americans) were forced to take, by the Japanese military to endure in April 1942, during…
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The Jarrow March of October 1936 remains one of the most poignant and defining symbols of Great Britain’s Interwar economic crisis. Undertaken during the height of the Great Depression, this 300-mile pilgrimage from the post-industrial town of Jarrow in North East England to the Houses of Parliament in London was not an ideological uprising, but…
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The discovery of the Karl Höcker album—a collection of personal photographs documenting the social lives of Auschwitz SS officers—provides a chilling juxtaposition to the atrocities committed at the Nazi concentration and extermination camp. These images, often depicting lighthearted moments of camaraderie, leisure, and relaxation, offer a stark contrast to the brutality occurring just miles away.…
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The Budy Massacre of October 5–6, 1942, remains one of the lesser-known atrocities of the Auschwitz concentration camp complex. Within the women’s penal company (Frauenstrafkompanie) at the Budy subcamp, approximately ninety French-Jewish women were beaten to death by SS guards and prisoner functionaries. This blog reconstructs the event, examines its causes and aftermath, and situates…
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Still so profoundly sad that Dolores died so young, This is one of their best songs, although there is no such thing as a bad Cranberries song. The song was written in response to the death of Johnathan Ball, 3, and Tim Parry, 12, who had been killed in the IRA bombing in Warrington, northwest…
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I have written about the bombing of Geleen before, but since today is the 84th anniversary, I thought it a good idea to revisit that awful day. Geleen is a town in the southeast part of the Netherlands. It used to be a mining town. Although the Bombing of Geleen was a devastating event, I…
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The Edelweiss Pirates, or Edelweißpiraten, were a group of loosely organized German youth who stood in open defiance of the Nazi regime during the Third Reich. They played a unique if often overlooked, role in resisting Nazi authority, fighting against conformity, and supporting anti-fascist efforts. Although they were not as coordinated or ideologically unified as…
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