Showing posts with label ww2. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ww2. Show all posts
Thursday, September 29, 2022

During WWII, "2,200 Latin Americans of Japanese descent...were forcibly deported to internment camps in the US"

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One of my political geography students is doing their project on this historical event: Peru deported over 2,000 Japanese people to the US t...
Sunday, November 28, 2021

Great story about an "Aryan-looking" young Jew that ended up in France at the start of WW2 and became a prolific member of the resistance

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Just one anecdote from the NYTimes :  He was soon rounded up with others and sent to a transit camp outside Lyon. A guard divulged that they...
Tuesday, April 9, 2019

Ten Nightmares

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My bf was telling me how delicious and moist this cinnamon roll I made was, but I figured out he ate one that I couldn’t fit in the pan an...
Monday, November 28, 2016

"One surefire way to be called ‘scum’ in Russia: Expose a heroic World War II story as a myth"

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WaPo : And one of the finest hours of that history is the legend of Panfilov's 28 men, which produced a line every Russian learns as a...
Sunday, October 2, 2016

"The book in question is The Total Rush – or, to use its superior English title, Blitzed – which reveals the astonishing and hitherto largely untold story of the Third Reich’s relationship with drugs"

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TG : including cocaine, heroin, morphine and, above all, methamphetamines (aka crystal meth), and of their effect . . . on the Wehrmacht’s...
Monday, August 15, 2016

"The Cards Against Humanity super PAC will be called the Nuisance Committee, a name that Temkin says comes from a chapter in his own family's history"

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DD : During World War II, Temkin says his grandfather flew dozens of combat missions on a B-24 bomber over Nazi Germany before being shot ...
Sunday, November 1, 2015

Link roundup

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1. " I began to realize that almost everything the Germans made was over-engineered, from the tanks to gas-mask cases to the field ja...
Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Ian Fleming "hated" Alan Turing

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According to the screenwriter of The Imitation Game: "Fleming's job was to come up with preposterous spy stories, that weren...
Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Hitchcock made a concentration camp documentary

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" It's a little known fact that the great director made a film about the Nazi death camps – but, horrified by the footage he saw, ...