Germany Started the Great War
The Kaiser and Germany’s Top Military and Political Leaders Planned to Start a Racial War against the Slavs before Russia Was Fully Armed The Road to the Great War Started with Austria’s Annexation of Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1908 Germany Threatened War in 1909, but...
German Atrocities in Belgium during the Great War: A Sample of Things to Come
The German Ultimatum to Belgium The German Invasion of Neutral Belgium Was a Violation of International Law The Germans Used Human Shields and Killed Belgian Civilians Including Women and Children at the Start of the Invasion The First Week of the Invasion: The...
The Holocaust in the Soviet Union
Hitler Planned a War of Annihilation The Massacres Started as soon as the Germans Invaded the Soviet Union After the Spectacular Success of Operation Barbarossa, Hitler Ordered the Acceleration of the Plan to Annihilate the Jews of Soviet Russia In Late July 1941, SS...
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A Battle in Ukraine Echoes Through the Decades by Andrew Higgins
Divided loyalties among the citizenry during World War I are still seen in today’s struggle with Russia.
History Survey Stumps U.S. Teens by Sam Dillon
The results demonstrate that a significant proportion of American teenagers live in “stunning ignorance” of history and literature, according to the group that commissioned the survey.
Lost in the Past by Timothy Egan
It’s not just students who don’t know history. Opinion leaders, corporate titans, politicians, media personalities and educators — dunce caps for all.
Belgians Share Their Land With War’s Reminders by Suzanne Daley
A century after hundreds of thousands died around Ypres, their remains are still being found, and shells are still exploding.
100 Years After the Great War, the Bad Guy Is Still Elusive By Alan Cowell
Blaming German expansionism is simplistic in today’s debate, in which historians think the war’s roots were far more tangled.
In Sarajevo, Divisions That Drove an Assassin Have Only Begun to Heal by John F. Burns
Nationalist and sectarian passions continue to haunt Bosnia, which was ravaged by a civil war just two decades ago and is even now the scene of dueling efforts to define Gavrilo Princip’s legacy.
The Role of Elites in Holocaust Denial By Brendan Nyhan
In a struggle for political control, a favorite tactic is to scapegoat external enemies to win support. Jews are a popular target.
26 Percent of World’s Adults Are Anti-Semitic, Survey Finds by Rick Gladstone
The study by the Anti-Defamation League also found that nearly half of the world’s adults have never heard of the Holocaust.
In Hungary, Anti-Semitism Rises Again by Marianne Szegedy-Maszak
My father saw the devastation of Nazi rule. What would he make of Hungary today?
Jews in Europe Report a Surge in Anti-Semitism by Andrew Higgins
Nearly a third of European Jews have considered emigration because of safety fears, according to a new survey, which suggests that prejudices are spreading to new segments of society.
The War to End All Wars? Hardly. But It Did Change Them Forever. by Steven Erlanger
Militarism and Humiliation Cast Shadow on Germany by Alison Smale
A century after World War I began, German leadership in Europe is both desired and resented, an ambivalence keenly felt by both the Germans and their wary neighbors.
The Great War Still Echoes – NYTimes.com by Jake Flanagin
One hundred years ago, the shot that killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand incited World War I ? and it reverberates on every continent today, JAKE FLANAGIN writes.
A Comprehensive Coronavirus Pandemic Timeline by Edward Dietrich
This is a comprehensive coronavirus pandemic timeline #CoronavirusTimeline that synthesizes information from major news outlets, medical journals, research institutes, U.S. government websites, databases, documents and public records. Most of the entries are direct...
The Electoral College is Unconstitutional By Edward Philip Dietrich
The Electoral College with a limit of 538 electors imposed by The Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929 is unconstitutional because a person’s vote in Wyoming, for example, is 3.6 times more valuable than a person’s vote in California.