Politics
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On November 17, 1917—just weeks after the Bolsheviks seized power—Vladimir Lenin delivered one of his most explicit defenses of suppressing opposition newspapers. In the document “Draft Decree on Freedom of the Press” and accompanying statements, Lenin justified what he called a temporary abolition of press freedom, framing it as a revolutionary necessity rather than a…
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Goebbels was more than a Nazi. He was pure evil, and he dedicated all his life and, indeed, death to Adolf Hitler. As minister of propaganda, he was probably the most powerful of Hitler’s henchmen; with the propaganda tools at his disposal, he was able to brainwash and persuade the general population. On 16 November…
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The International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE), also known as the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal, was one of the most significant judicial efforts to hold individuals accountable for crimes committed during war. Established in the aftermath of World War II, the tribunal sought to prosecute the leading figures of Imperial Japan for crimes…
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The BBC is one of the world’s most respected broadcasters and a pillar of British public life — which is exactly why its failures get so much attention when things go wrong. Below I’ve pulled together a chronological, readable guide to the BBC’s major scandals from the post-war period to the present. This is not…
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On the night of November 9–10, 1938, a wave of orchestrated violence swept across Germany and Austria. Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues were burned and looted; families were beaten and humiliated; and tens of thousands were sent to concentration camps. The shattered glass that littered the streets the next morning gave the pogrom its haunting…
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The one thing that still baffles me is how did the governments around the globe not see what Hitler’s plans were? I know that Japan and Italy and to a lesser extend Finland,Romania and a few smaller countries were also axis nations but the fact is if Hitler’s Germany would not have become the power…
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Before delving into the main story, it’s important to discuss the events that led up to it. The Farhud Pogrom: A Forgotten Tragedy The Farhud, meaning “violent dispossession” in Arabic, was a devastating pogrom against the Jewish community in Baghdad, Iraq, on June 1–2, 1941. This dark chapter in Jewish history not only marked a…
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Hans Frank was a prominent figure in Nazi Germany, serving as Adolf Hitler’s personal legal advisor and later as the Governor-General of occupied Poland. Born on May 23, 1900, in Karlsruhe, Germany, Frank was initially trained as a lawyer, joining the Nazi Party in 1923. He quickly rose through the ranks by aligning himself closely…
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How do you cope when you find out that your father was one of the most evil men in history, and worse, your Godfather was the most evil man known to humanity? Martin Adolf Bormann (14 April 1930 in Grünwald—11 March 2013 (aged 82) in Herdecke) was a German theologian and laicized Roman Catholic priest. He…
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Erected in the dead of night on August 13, 1961, the Berlin Wall (known as Berliner Mauer in German) was a physical division between West Berlin and East Germany. Its purpose was to keep disaffected East Germans from fleeing to the West. When the Berlin Wall fell on November 9, 1989, its destruction was nearly…
