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Showing posts with label Germany. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Germany. Show all posts
Friday, May 18, 2018

The Incremental Steps Toward a Fascist State

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by Nomad F irst published in 1955, the book, They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 ,  dealt with a difficult subject in ...
Saturday, February 24, 2018

Sophie Scholl and the Conscience of the Nation

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by Nomad This 22 February marked the 75th anniversary of the trial and execution of  21-year-old Sophie Magdalena Scholl. Along ...
Friday, January 13, 2017

Thomas Wolfe's Message to Trump's America: You Can't Go Home Again

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by Nomad American author Thomas Wolfe's travels through 1936 Nazi Germany comprised part of his posthumous novel. Excerpts from t...
Wednesday, April 20, 2016

Human Rights Watch: The Politics of Fear is the World's Number One Threat

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by Nomad In the midst of the Great Depression, President Roosevelt famously told the nation that the only thing we had to fear was fear i...
Wednesday, April 6, 2016

Political Theater: How Orson Welles Used Julius Caesar to Warn Against The Rise of Fascism

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by Nomad This post will take us on a merry ride through history, both ancient and modern. It involves a murder of a tyrant and a play ...
Saturday, February 27, 2016

Of Foolishness and Evil: Why the Life and Words of Bonhoeffer are Important for Today

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by Nomad The life and words of Dietrich Bonhoeffer underscore a fundamental truth: silence in the face of evil is a form of complici...
Friday, February 20, 2015

This Day in History: When Bankers and Big Business Betrayed a Nation

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 by Nomad When we look back at this date- February 20- we see it was a critical day in modern history. Eighty-two years ago today,  ...
Monday, July 21, 2014

A Century Old Historical Mashup: Malaysian Flight MH 17 and the RMS Lusitania

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by Nomad They often say history repeats itself but that's not actually true. Usually some elements of past history are re-formed to ...
Sunday, January 20, 2013

What the NRA Doesn’t Want You to Know: The Fallacy of Democracy and Gun-Ownership Rights

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by Nomad W e have all heard it. The conventional wisdom states- or at least, implies, that private gun ownership is a protection aga...
Monday, June 11, 2012

Dr. Dodd and His Warning about Hidden Fascism in America

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by Nomad "Fascism is on the march today in America. Millionaires are marching to the tune. It will come in this country unless...