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Infamous photograph of German soldiers rounding up Jews for deportation in the Warsaw Ghetto, 1943.

Weathering the Storm: Wartime Lives of Ordinary People

Review of An Iron Wind: Europe Under Hitler, by Peter Fritzsche (New York: Basic Books, 2016)
… … Zach Golder … Reviews … Europe … World War II / WWII … Genocide … Jewish People … Weathering the Storm: Wartime …
UPA soldiers charge

West Ukraine's War Stories: A New Chapter?

The region of western Ukraine makes up just a small percentage of the territory and population of present-day Ukraine, but has historically played an outsized role in the 20th century struggles for control of eastern Europe.
… Jewish People … World War II / WWII … Military/War/Peace … Genocide … Europe … West Ukraine's War Stories: A New …
Cover of The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany by Susannah Heschel.

God for Nazis

Review of The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany , by Susannah Heschel (Princeton University Press, 2008)
… Europe … Christianity … Judaism … Germany … Antisemitism … Genocide … God for Nazis …
Miklós Horthy, Hungarian regent, and Adolf Hitler in 1938.

Hitler’s Gamble with Destiny, 1941

… … Europe … World War II / WWII … Germany … Soviet Union … Genocide … Antisemitism … Hitler’s Gamble with Destiny, 1941 …
KKK Rally

From Dixie to the Third Reich

Review of Hitler’s American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law, by James Q. Whitman (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017)
… States … Germany … Racism & Racial Ideas … Jewish People … Genocide … From Dixie to the Third Reich …
Raising a Flag over the Reichstag by Yevgeny Khaldei (1945).

The Living Ghosts of the Second World War and the Russian Invasion of Ukraine

… Ukraine and join Russia were experiencing “ humiliation and genocide perpetrated by the Kiev regime.” His mission, he … Patriotic War (1941-1945), protecting the world from Nazi genocide. Putin called the Ukrainians, whose territory … who, backed by their NATO allies, were committing “genocide” against Russians.  In justifying the timing of the …
a couple in a wedding dress and soldier dress uniform

Between Two Worlds: Jewish War Brides After the Holocaust

… introduces us to the Jewish women who lived through genocide and went on to wed American, Canadian, and British … will introduce us to the Jewish women who lived through the genocide, and went on to wed American, Canadian and British … Governor Mike DeWine appointed her to Ohio's Holocaust and Genocide Memorial and Education Commission in 2021. Robin is …
French demonstrators with purple signs that read "ras le viol"

Violence Against Women

… genitals and women's genitals. In particular, in cases of genocide, which have been common throughout history, but simply not labeled as specific cases of genocide, what you find is, genocide is now understood to be an attempt by one group to …
Nationalist poster depicting Pakistani atrocities during the war

The Bangladesh Liberation War

… of Pakistan committed war crimes that reached the level of genocide. What began as an internecine conflict soon became … futilely sounded the alarm over the ongoing “selective genocide,” the White House illegally transferred weapons to … debated whether the Pakistani army’s actions qualify as genocide and who should be held responsible. Exhibition at …

'The World's Worst Humanitarian Crisis': Understanding the Darfur Conflict

… crisis" and the United States government called it "genocide." The violence and destruction is often compared to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. These tragic events have riveted the … and prompted the U.S. government to describe it as "genocide." However, the rhetoric of the international …
Aurangzeb in a pavilion with courtiers below.

Aurangzeb: Mughal Emperor

… of non-Islamic monuments and temples, and committing genocide.  To some South Asian Muslims, he was an exemplary … sectarian whole. He did not ban music, nor did he commit genocide. While he would not meet modern definitions of a …

Canada’s Dark Side: Indigenous Peoples and Canada’s 150th Celebration

… want to get rid of the Indian problem” and the Question of Genocide "This year, the federal government plans to spend … cake in Canada's 150th celebration will be paid for by the genocide of Indigenous peoples and cultures."  – Pamela … but you don’t actually physically kill people, is it genocide? When we call it something else— assimilation , …

Policing the Police: A Civil Rights Story

… chapter in law enforcement in this country.” “We Charge Genocide” Following the end of  World War II , the U.S. … group with roots in organized labor—presented “We Charge Genocide” to the United Nations in Paris. The book-length … accountable for the deaths under the terms of the  UN’s Genocide Convention . Among these assertions, it drew a …
1943 poster for the Allies of World War II--two years before the founding of the United Nations.

The UN Follows the League’s Long Trail to Impotence

… Korea to flout international nuclear norms, permitting genocide in Darfur, and watching Iraq crumble into chaos, … thousand. Yet the UN refuses to declare these actions to be genocide. This is nothing new for such an organization. In …
A shopkeeper sits outside his store in the Cardo waiting for tourists and residents to stop in.

A Postcard from Jerusalem

… outside a restaurant to remind passersby of the Armenian genocide. Nestled in the southwest quarter of the Old City, … The quarter also acknowledges more recent history: the genocide of 1915-1917 . After the genocide , Jerusalem experienced an influx of Armenian …

Erasing Indigenous History, Then and Now

… criticized as being dismissive of a long history of genocide in the United States against Native peoples and … of “nothing,” there is also the story of dispossession and genocide. Indigenous nations dwelled in those territories …