Save One Life, Save the World?

An extraordinary feel-good movie, One Life, about how one "ordinary" British man, Nicholas Winton, portrayed by Anthony Hopkins, saved 669 Jewish children in Czechoslovakia from the Holocaust in 1939, is now streaming in the U.S. It does, unintentionally, raise uncomfortable questions as to what humanitarians can do to save the lives of the children of …

1.8 Million Latinos Were Deported from the US in the 1930s

Given Donald Trump's proposal to employ the military and law enforcement to deport 10 million undocumented immigrants, it's important to recall a past mass deportation: more than one million Latinos, half of them born in the U.S., were deported in the early 1930s by the Herbert Hoover administration as a response to resentment that "they" …

The Jim Crow Era: A Stain On America’s Past

Wondrium: "An African American named Homer Plessy predated Rosa Parks' famous refusal to comply with racist transportation laws by more than 60 years. The Supreme Court upheld his conviction for sitting in a whites-only train car in Plessy v. Ferguson, leading to the Jim Crow era. Discover hard history and how "separate but equal" was …

Walter Winchell Criticizes 1939 Nazi Rally

Walter Winchell (1897-1972) “was a syndicated American newspaper gossip columnist and radio news commentator. Originally a vaudeville performer, Winchell began his newspaper career as a Broadway reporter, critic and columnist for New York tabloids.” Wikipedia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzT-hjdnoEc Related: Nazi Town, USA, in the 1930s Who Goes Nazi? Know the Difference Between Nazis and Socialists Night of the Long Knives in …

Nazi Town, USA, in the 1930s

PBS American Experience: "In the 1930s, Summer camps opened up across the country. But these weren't normal summer camps: they were the creation of the German American Bund, a pro-Nazi organization with a vision of America ruled by white Christians. NAZI TOWN, USA tells the largely unknown story of the Bund, which had scores of …

How to Define Fascism?

"The danger of fascism lies in its ability to coopt legitimate resentments resulting from inequality and refashion them as hostility towards outsiders. Instead of addressing working-class grievances, fascistic regimes offer their followers a different form of reward by redrawing the lines of inclusion and exclusion, mass-producing myth and arms in equal measure. Until moderates and …

Beyond the Myths of Rural America

"Its inhabitants are as much creatures of state power and industrial capitalism as their city-dwelling counterparts." -- The iconic painting, American Gothic, by Grant Wood, probably the most famous piece of art coming from the U.S., sparks many reflections on the differences between cities and town, urban and rural environments. A piercing, unsentimental new book, …

Atatürk – The father of modern Turkey | DW Documentary

There are a lot of Turks in Germany. To help native Germans understand these relatively recent immigrants since the 1980s, the German broadcasting service DW produced this documentary in 2020. https://www.dw.com/en/atat%C3%BCrk-the-father-of-modern-turkey/video-67235196 The founder of modern Turkey Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was a revolutionary who was driven by idealism. His "War of Independence" created modern Turkey where …

“Let Us Never Forget…

That government is ourselves, and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President, senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country." -- Franklin Roosevelt.

Krastallnicht: What Happened On the Night of Broken Glass?

On November 9-10, 1938, a violent Nazi pogram against Jews occurred in Germany and Austria. More than 91 people were murdered. It foreshadowed the Holocaust. https://youtu.be/-y0uwd9QAYE?si=DWcgdtUFZ0_dhGOK https://www.history.com/news/kristallnacht-75-years-ago?cmpid=email-hist-inside-history-2023-1108-11082023&om_rid=%20~campaign%20%3D%20hist-inside-history-2023-1108