Reading Time: 3 minutes Lemkin lobbied tirelessly for the United Nations to adopt a definition of the word genocide
Tag: Second World War
Dunkirk and the maligned Belgians
Reading Time: 4 minutes When disaster comes calling, shifting the blame is generally not too far behind, and war is the perfect setting for laying blame
Mystery still swirls around Hitler’s death 72 years later
Reading Time: 10 minutes Barring the release of some smoking gun document buried in intelligence archives, the question of whether Hitler died in his bunker will probably never be settled
Lesson from the tragedy of the MS St. Louis
Reading Time: 3 minutes We turned away a ship full of gifted souls because of our irrational fears
Irena Sendler’s remarkable courage should inspire us all
Reading Time: 3 minutes As a member of the Polish underground in Warsaw, Sendler saved thousands of Jewish children from the Nazis because she had the courage to follow her convictions
History passes judgment on Nuremberg Trials
Reading Time: 3 minutes A classic case of victor’s justice masquerading as a modern judicial proceeding