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The Vienna of 1913

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , on 20 April 2013 by delclem

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A century ago, the city of Vienna played host to Hitler,
Trotsky, Tito, Freud and Stalin.”
>full text with more photos & a map (c) BBC, 2013

>audio file (interview with Charles Emmerson & Dardis McNamee)

(the same facts are also mentioned in the German 1913 book by Florian Illies)

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“The Suffering Olympics”

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , on 2 February 2012 by delclem

“The ‘double genocide’ wars that pit Stalin’s crimes against Hitler’s are raging in wide swathes of Europe and every now and again along comes a gust from the past to stoke them.” Commentary by Robert Cohen (c) NYT, 2012; illustration by Gianpaolo Pagni.

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