Archive for National Socialism

Josef Škvorecký (1924 – 2012)

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , on 6 January 2012 by delclem

“Just over two weeks after the death of Vaclav Havel, another Czech literary figure who played a key role in his country’s Communist-era dissident movement, Josef Skvorecky, died of cancer Tuesday. He was 87.”

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Paris, 1940-44: “one big romp”?

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , on 4 October 2011 by delclem

“A new book which suggests that the German occupation of France encouraged the sexual liberation of women has shocked a country still struggling to come to terms with its troubled history of collaboration with the Nazis.” >> READ MORE
(c) Patrick Buisson & The Sunday Times, 2008/2011

Neglecting the Lithuanian Holocaust?

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , on 31 July 2011 by delclem

An article by the historian Timothy Snyder (Yale University)
who published the controversial & thought-provoking book Bloodlands recently

(c) NYR, 2011