Showing posts with label Shoah/Holocaust. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shoah/Holocaust. Show all posts
Saturday, June 18, 2016

18 June 1942: Heydrich Assassins Killed in Prague Church

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Following the assassination of the "Reichsprotektor" of Bohemia and Moravia, Reinhard Heydrich , the members of the Czechoslovak ...
Sunday, June 5, 2016

The Bomber that Delivered the Heydrich Assassins

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I've been posting a lot lately about the anniversary of the assassination of Nazi Security Office head and Reichsprotektor of Bohem...
Saturday, June 4, 2016

June 1942: Rommel and Heydrich in the News

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On June 6,1942, the Illustrated London News ran a little feature on "British and German Personalities in the Public Eye To-Day."...
Sunday, May 29, 2016

29 May 1942: The New York Times reports on reprisals for the Heydrich Assassination

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Two days after the assassination of the acting Nazi "Reichsprotektor" of Bohemia and Moravia, Reinhard Heydrich, the New York T...
Friday, May 27, 2016

May 27, 1942: Czechoslovak Paratroopers Assassinate Reinhard Heydrich in Prague

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On May 27, 1942, Czechoslovak paratroopers Jan Kubiš and Jozef Gabčík, trained by the British Special Operations Executive (SOE), assassin...
Saturday, July 4, 2015

Commemorations of Lidice on Medals and Stamps

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The previous post described the Nazi massacre of the inhabitants of the Czech village of Lidice and the powerful emotional and historical e...
Wednesday, June 17, 2015

"this most savage single act of repression": the Washington Post reports the Lidice massacre, June 1942

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Today, in a world in which the West knows only limited wars, and in which many journalists and commentators lack both military experience ...
Thursday, April 16, 2015

Commemorating the Holocaust in Music

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It is a truism--and a typical piece of philistine thinking--to say that it is "impossible" for words, or art, to capture the real...

Yom HaShoah / Holocaust Memorial Day 2015/5775

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Haaretz today ran an article, " A dozen reasons why Israel should do away with Holocaust Remembrance Day ." It was no doubt supp...
Monday, April 13, 2015

April 13, 1943: Nazis Announce Discovery of Mass Grave of Murdered Poles at Katyń

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In April-May 1940, the security services of Stalin’s Soviet Union, which had concluded a non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany in August 193...
Sunday, November 9, 2014

Fall of the Wall Disclaimer

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Today of course marks the 25th anniversary of the opening/fall of the Berlin Wall. It was a striking event for those of us who watche...
Monday, November 29, 2010

Jan Wiener, 1920-2010

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Just a brief note on the sad news of the passing of historian Jan Wiener. Here's the AP story, via Haaretz : Jewish Czech who fought ...
Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Nazis, Nazis, everywhere, nor any stop to think: On the flotilla, historical argument, and evolving antisemitic discourse

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Predictably but regrettably, the recent fighting over the "Gaza Freedom Flotilla" brought forth a tidal wave of criticism of Isr...
Monday, July 5, 2010

The Heydrich Assassination: "Killing Heydrich" (documentary)

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"Killing Heydrich": As a follow-up to my recent posts on the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich , clips from a British documenta...
Friday, July 2, 2010

Fun With Hamas, Hizballah, and History

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The political world is atwitter with rumors that the US is secretly negotiating with Hamas , fueled by a growing stream of articles citing e...