Tag: world war II

High Fashion Meets High Crimes in The New Look

We meet her at the moment when her association with her German neighbors goes from casual to official, from ambient to active. Her beloved nephew is captured fighting for the French army, and Chanel takes on a debt of service to the Nazis—particularly SS spymaster Walter Schellenberg—in order to help him. By the end of […]

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What Holocaust Remembrance Forgets

Part of the Holocaust’s unknowability stems from its origins. Stone points in particular to the role of ideology in spurring the mass murder. We know well, naturally, that Adolf Hitler and other leading National Socialists were rabid antisemites. Hitler’s infamous autobiography Mein Kampf is an antisemite’s manifesto and Nazi propaganda was replete with antisemitic stereotype. […]

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Japan’s Incomplete Reckoning With World War II Crimes

Less well known in this country are the great cruelties practiced by Japanese forces in other countries in Asia. There were no equivalents of the Nazi death camps, but Japanese soldiers routinely raped, tortured, and murdered civilians in China, the Philippines, Korea, Burma, Indonesia, and other Asian countries. The “Rape of Nanking,” which began in […]

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Japan’s Incomplete Reckoning With World War II Crimes

Less well known in this country are the great cruelties practiced by Japanese forces in other countries in Asia. There were no equivalents of the Nazi death camps, but Japanese soldiers routinely raped, tortured, and murdered civilians in China, the Philippines, Korea, Burma, Indonesia, and other Asian countries. The “Rape of Nanking,” which began in […]

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Remembering Black Soldiers’ Roles In World War II: The Good, Bad And The Ugly

NewsOne Featured Video Members of the 99th Fighter Squadron, the first Black flying squadron of the US Army Air Force, posing at the Anzio beachhead in Italy, February 1944. | Source: Archive Photos / Getty Until the 21st century, the contributions of African-American soldiers in World War II barely registered in America’s collective memory of […]

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Let’s Give Black World War II Vets What We Promised

extending to surviving Black World War II veterans and their direct descendants the housing and education benefits denied under the 1944 G.I. Bill. Veterans and their descendants could get access to the VA Loan Guaranty Program, as well as post-9/11 G.I. Bill educational assistance provisions, which grant financial assistance for school and job training. This […]

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Trump Warned ‘Cognitively Impaired’ Biden Will Lead Us Into ‘World War II’ In A Gaffe-Filled Speech

One of Donald Trump’s favorite attacks on Joe Biden is that, unlike him, he’s in cognitive decline. After all, Trump’s the guy who passed a “difficult” mental acuity test before he lost re-election. But is it possible the guy who can’t spell “rumor” or “hamburgers” is projecting? Based on a speech he delivered Friday, it […]

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