World Civ-World War Two Archives - Daniel Aaron Lazar Wed, 16 Sep 2020 07:37:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 IQ2 Debate: Neville Chamberlain Did The Right Thing https://daniellazar.com/2020/09/08/iq2-debate-neville-chamberlain-did-the-right-thing-2/ Tue, 08 Sep 2020 07:51:34 +0000 https://daniellazar.com/?p=8939 If you prefer, you can listen to the podcast version here If ever a politician got a bum rap it’s Neville Chamberlain. He has gone down in history as the British prime minster whose policy of appeasement in the 1930s allowed the Nazis to flourish unopposed. He has never been forgiven for ceding part of … Continue reading IQ2 Debate: Neville Chamberlain Did The Right Thing →

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]]> Lecture: Causes of WWII in Europe https://daniellazar.com/2020/09/06/8919/ Sun, 06 Sep 2020 18:43:59 +0000 https://daniellazar.com/?p=8919 Lecture Outline: •MAIN Causes of WWI Redux •Limits of International Cooperation •American Insularity •Two Decades of Disorder •Lies and Propaganda •Hitler, His Henchmen, Nazis, und das deutsche Volk

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]]> Legacies of WWII https://daniellazar.com/2020/09/02/iq2-debate-neville-chamberlain-did-the-right-thing/ Wed, 02 Sep 2020 10:40:46 +0000 https://daniellazar.com/?p=8909 Watch this seven-minute video of colorized footage of Berlin in 1945 2. Watch this eighteen-minute video about the casualties of WWII 3. Examine WWII casualty data as presented on Wikipedia. YOUR ASSIGNMENT: Bearing in mind the sources above as well as previous knowledge, evaluate the complicated legacies of WWII. Consider political, economic, and social legacies … Continue reading Legacies of WWII →

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]]> IQ2 Debate: The Allied Bombing of German Cities in WWII Was Unjustifiable https://daniellazar.com/2017/11/25/iq2-debate-the-allied-bombing-of-german-cities-in-world-war-ii-was-unjustifiable/ Sat, 25 Nov 2017 10:51:30 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=5786 You can listen to a podcast version if you prefer. No one doubts the bravery of the thousands of men who flew and died in Bomber Command. The death rate was an appalling 44%. And yet until the opening of a monument in Green Park this year they have received no official recognition, with many … Continue reading IQ2 Debate: The Allied Bombing of German Cities in WWII Was Unjustifiable →

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]]> High Hitler: how Nazi drug abuse steered the course of history https://daniellazar.com/2016/11/02/high-hitler-how-nazi-drug-abuse-steered-the-course-of-history/ Wed, 02 Nov 2016 11:09:33 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=5595 The book in question is The Total Rush – or, to use its superior English title, Blitzed – which reveals the astonishing and hitherto largely untold story of the Third Reich’s relationship with drugs, including cocaine, heroin, morphine and, above all, methamphetamines (aka crystal meth), and of their effect not only on Hitler’s final days … Continue reading High Hitler: how Nazi drug abuse steered the course of history →

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]]> 'They raped every German female from eight to 80' https://daniellazar.com/2016/08/10/they-raped-every-german-female-from-eight-to-80/ Wed, 10 Aug 2016 05:17:07 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=5544 “Red Army soldiers don’t believe in ‘individual liaisons’ with German women,” wrote the playwright Zakhar Agranenko in his diary when serving as an officer of marine infantry in East Prussia. “Nine, ten, twelve men at a time – they rape them on a collective basis.” The Soviet armies advancing into East Prussia in January 1945, … Continue reading 'They raped every German female from eight to 80' →

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]]> What Americans thought of Jewish refugees on the eve of World War II https://daniellazar.com/2016/01/31/what-americans-thought-of-jewish-refugees-on-the-eve-of-world-war-ii/ Sun, 31 Jan 2016 12:59:47 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=5490 published in the Washington Post, 2015  

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]]> So much worse than Auschwitz https://daniellazar.com/2015/11/23/so-much-worse-than-auschwitz/ Mon, 23 Nov 2015 05:29:10 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=5459 The word “Auschwitz” has become a metonym for the Holocaust as a whole. Yet the vast majority of Jews had already been murdered, further east, by the time that Auschwitz became a major killing facility. Yet while Auschwitz has been remembered, most of the Holocaust has been largely forgotten.

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]]> Nuremberg Trial Bore Witness to the Nazis’ Worst Crimes https://daniellazar.com/2015/11/23/nuremberg-trial-bore-witness-to-the-nazis-worst-crimes/ Mon, 23 Nov 2015 05:23:40 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=5457 Rebecca West, the acclaimed British writer, covered Nuremberg for the New Yorker. In August 1946, as the case entered its 10th month, she wrote, “[T]he courtroom is a citadel of boredom. Every person attending it is in the grip of extreme tedium.” How could a trial for some of the most ghastly and massive crimes … Continue reading Nuremberg Trial Bore Witness to the Nazis’ Worst Crimes →

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]]> How Thousands Of Nazis Were 'Rewarded' With Life In The U.S. https://daniellazar.com/2015/05/12/how-thousands-of-nazis-were-rewarded-with-life-in-the-u-s/ Tue, 12 May 2015 06:55:50 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=5254 In his new book, The Nazis Next Door, Lichtblau reports that thousands of Nazis managed to settle in the United States after World War II, often with the direct assistance of American intelligence officials who saw them as potential spies and informants in the Cold War against the Soviet Union. Lichtblau says there were whole … Continue reading How Thousands Of Nazis Were 'Rewarded' With Life In The U.S. →

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