It’s been 15 years since author Allen Hornblum’s landmark book on unethical human experimentation in U.S. prisons, Acres of Skin, was published. His new book, written with co-authors Judith L. Newman and Gregory J. Dober, is ...
Uncovered: new evidence of Jewish movie moguls’ extensive collaboration with Nazis in the 1930s June 10, 2013 Adolf Hitler loved American movies. Every night at about 9:00, after the Führer had tired out his listeners with ...
Review of “Tower of Basel: The Shadowy History of the Secret Bank that Runs the World,” by Adam LeBor. If you think the Bank for International Settlements is just a colorless intermediary, Adam LeBor’s new ...
Richard Rashke’s ‘Useful Enemies’ talks about John Demjanjuk case and why some enemies were welcome in U.S. and some weren’t Using slave labor, the German scientist Wernher von Braun helped produce the V-2 rockets that ...
Since the late 1980s, ritual sexual abuse has largely disappeared from Utah’s headlines, despite the occasional, hard-to-substantiate stories. I spent months listening on-and-off to the stories of numerous women of varying ages who talked of ...
April 16, 2013 The rise of Nazism to power in Germany in 1933 led to an outpouring of protest in the United States mainly initiated by Jews. Community leaders, politicians, trade unionists, writers and intellectuals, ...
April 13, 2013 Gayle L. Morrison takes a few moments to do some proofreading before she spends the afternoon with her adopted Hmong family. It’s a chance to mix pleasure with business after spending three ...
” … The then-president of Brooklyn College, Harry D. Gideonse, believed he was fighting a just war against communism. He stripped professors of tenure, fired instructors and employees, and barred meetings of ‘un-Americans; on campus. ...
‘And Hell Followed with Her;’ Murder Along the Border March 22, 2013 David Neiwert’s new book is a taut true-crime story told with a measure of gravitas, gripping as much for the grisly particulars of ...
” … The book examines how Mussolini gained the support of the majority of the Italian population and details the personal relationships they had with him and why his rule still resonates today. …” March ...
Useful Enemies: John Demjanjuk and America’s Open-Door Policy for Nazi War Criminals By Richard Rashke, Delphinium Books, 622 pages, $29.95. There is horror to spare in Richard Rashke’s “Useful Enemies: John Demjanjuk and America’s Open-Door Policy ...
The Pike: Gabriele D’Annunzio – Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War By Lucy Hughes-Hallett Fourth Estate, 704pp, £25 Reviewed by Daniel Swift New Statesman, February 14, 2013 Gabriele D’Annunzio was born in 1863 on the ...
Philosophy’s Shameful Love for the Swastika Hitler’s academics genuinely believed that Nazism was a force for good A new book looks at the way academics in Germany reacted to the coming of Adolf Hitler ...
About the author of Operation Cyanide from Amazon: “… Peter Hounam was the Chief Investigative Journalist for The Sunday Times of London from 1986-1994. . In 1996, he won the prestigious ‘Scoop of the Year’ ...
” … This book is so bad – in content and style – that it deserves a close reading, primarily because it is the type of salacious and deceptive propaganda eagerly devoured by so many ...
Keeping Faith: Former Delco politician is the focus of new biography By PATTI MENGERS Delaware County Daily Times, October 7, 2012 For Delaware County residents, Faith Ryan Whittlesey’s life has always seemed to be an ...
August 2012 “Fear had taken root in my own house, in my drawer, carefully folded, smelling of fresh laundry, nestling among the socks.” With these simple words, author Marcelo Figueras re-creates the opening days of ...
By Louis Nowra The Australian, July 21, 2012 Manning Clark argued until the outbreak of war that Nazi Germany should be given the benefit of the doubt. Source: Supplied A YEAR before World War II ...
“ .. We shouldn’t claim that we would have behaved better or that we would have resisted. In certain situations everyone can do or support evil things. The Germans weren’t all bad, and the perpetrators ...
Re: THE SPANISH HOLOCAUST Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain By Paul Preston Illustrated. 700 pp. W. W. Norton & Company. $35. By ADAM HOCHSCHILD NewYork Times, May 11, 2012 Miners captured by General Franco’s ...
“… There are, in fact, many weird things about this little book. In a couple of different spots, for example, [AN] Wilson heavily implies that only secret fascists fancy keeping dogs as pets, since upon ...
By Susan Seligson. Video by Devin Hahn BU Today (Boston University), April 20.2012 Watch this video on YouTube Michael Grodin (from left) and his UROP students, Evelyn Liberman (CAS’12, SPH’13) and Rachelle Rubin (CAS’12), talk about ...
“… Despite all that the Jews had suffered under Germany, in many areas of Europe anti-Semitism increased after the war. In parts of Hungary and Poland, communities made homeless by the conflict were persecuted and ...
By Bradley Winterton Taipei Times, Jan 31, 2012 The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade By Andrew Feinstein 672 pages Hamish Hamilton, Hardcover This book, though lively, makes extremely depressing reading. Its subject is ...
“… Americans reacted to Hitler rather as any other nationality did. First they ridiculed him, then they expressed grudging admiration for the order he brought to Germany. Later, they turned a blind eye to his ...
“… Her Fascist sympathies stayed with her all her life. When she needed a lawyer to start a libel action in 1937, she chose the Parisian Nazi Armand Grégoire. Even when the war was on, ...
” … Brent Bozell was a brother-in-law of William F. Buckley who ghost-wrote Goldwater’s landmark The Conscience of a Conservative. Bozell was an early leader of the party’s disillusioned arch-conservative wing who was angered by ...
” … While Salmen is fictional, the vast majority of Schlesak’s book is not. It takes a unique approach to literary nonfiction. The vast majority of the book consists of excerpts from actual trial transcripts and ...
“Before World War II, there were 100 Japanese families living in Lompoc; upon their release from internment camps, only two families resettled here. John McReynolds’ new book, “Vanished, Lompoc’s Japanese: Of One Hundred Families Only ...
“… Some members of Quebec’s elite, nationalist and federalist, supported Nazi collaborator Marshall Philippe Petain and his Vichy government in France during the Second World War and then helped bring war criminals to safety in ...
“… John Foster Dulles had made it clear that staff should ‘do nothing to offend the dictators; they are the only people we can depend on.’ … Past imperial over-reach, and present financial crises, might ...
” … Somerville is a book for who-dun-nit fans but also it is an expose on war crimes, art history and experimental drug testing. … “ Nazis and drug companies share unholy alliance By Susan ...
Independent Institute | April 28, 2011 Soviet kids say the darnedest things, art historian Igor Golomstock discovered when he led field trips through Moscow’s Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in the late 1950s. The schoolchildren indicated ...
” … Much of Western opinion, Lipstadt reminds us, was not pleased. Argentina demanded Eichmann’s repatriation, and the American establishment agreed. The Washington Post editorial page condemned Israel’s ‘jungle law’ … William F. Buckley Jr. ...
By John S. Hausman | The Muskegon Chronicle | April 09, 2011 The Klan funeral of Charles Rice on May 3, 1925, in Hesperia. The photograph was one of the items from a Klan collection auctioned ...
