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SOURCE: Boston Review
3/29/2021
The Other Nuremberg Trials, Seventy-Five Years On
by Erica X. Eisen
The defense of capitalism during the Cold War meant that businesses and businessmen who collaborated in war crimes went unpunished.
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3/21/2021
Review – The Ratline: The Exalted Life and Mysterious Death of a Nazi Fugitive by Philippe Sands
by James Thornton Harris
The life of Otto Wachter, the SS officer indicted for the murder of 400,000 Jews in Ukraine, complicates the "banality of evil" idea. Philippe Sands shows him as both a bureaucrat and a cruel ideologue, as well as a man sufficiently aware of his guilt to go on the run.
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SOURCE: New York Times
3/8/2021
Of Nazis, Crimes and Punishment
Understanding the neurological changes brought on by adolescence and aging make it complicated to determine what justice is in the case of a Nazi camp guard deported from the United States to Germany in February.
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SOURCE: New York Times
2/26/2021
A Harvard Professor Called Wartime Sex Slaves ‘Prostitutes.’ One Pushed Back
One of the last survivors among the Korean "comfort women" of World War II has denounced a recent paper characterizing the trafficking of women by the Imperial Japanese Army as ordinary prostitution.
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SOURCE: Journal of the History of Ideas
10/7/2020
With a Touch of Wisdom: Human Rights, Memory, and Forgetting
by Antoon de Baets
A historian concerned with memory, censorship and human rights considers whether there is an affirmative duty for historians to promote the memory of crimes and atrocities.
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SOURCE: The Guardian
2/20/2021
US Deports 95-Year-Old Former Concentration Camp Guard To Germany
Friedrich Karl Berger, a German citizen, was sent back to Germany this month for serving as a guard of a Neuengamme concentration camp subcamp near Hamburg in 1945.
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SOURCE: The New Republic
2/16/2021
Can Historians Be Traumatized by History? (Content Warning)
by James Robins
"If the historian—the very person supposed to process the past on behalf of everyone else—struggles with trauma, then it is little surprise that societies as a whole struggle to face the violence of how they were formed and how they prevailed."
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SOURCE: Harvard Crimson
2/15/2021
Journal Delays Print Publication of Harvard Law Professor’s Controversial ‘Comfort Women’ Article Amid Outcry
"Against the historical consensus, Ramseyer claims in his paper, entitled “Contracting for Sex in the Pacific War," that comfort women were not coerced and instead voluntarily entered into contracts with Japanese brothels."
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SOURCE: New York Times
2/5/2021
Woman, 95, Indicted on 10,000 Counts of Accessory to Murder in Nazi Camp
"Public prosecutors in Germany have indicted a 95-year-old woman for her role supporting the Nazi killing machinery as a secretary in a concentration camp, charging her with 10,000 counts of being an accessory to murder, and complicity in attempted murders."
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1/17/2021
Were Trump's Pardons Even Legal?
by James D. Zirin
Almost all the pundits, constitutional lawyers, and members of the professoriate are laying down their arms, largely conceding that the President has broad powers to pardon anyone in the world, with the possible exception of himself. But are they giving too much away?"
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SOURCE: Los Angeles Review of Books
12/5/2020
Performance Anxiety: How Cold War Men’s Adventure Magazines Shaped Soldiers’ (Mis)Understandings of the Vietnam War (Review)
by Nicholas Utzig
A consideration of Gregory Daddis's book "Pulp Vietnam: War and Gender in Cold War Men’s Adventure Magazines."
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SOURCE: Voice of America
11/17/2020
German Historians on Frontlines of Politics
German historians have faced lawsuits for writing about World War II-era crimes by the Wehrmacht, part of a growing culture war in which right-wing Germans seek to deny or diminish the Holocaust and Nazi war crimes.
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SOURCE: Library of Congress
11/10/2020
Henry Wirz and Andersonville Prison
Henry Wirz, commander of the infamous Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia, was hanged on November 10, 1865, in Washington, D.C., the only Confederate officer executed as a war criminal.
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SOURCE: New York Times
10/10/2020
A Famed Horror Director Mines Japan’s Real-Life Atrocities
In a recent interview, Mr. Kurosawa, 65, said he found it hard to understand why Japan’s war crimes remained almost taboo among the country’s filmmakers 75 years after the conflict’s end.
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SOURCE: NPR
8/1/2020
Opinion: 75 Years On, Remember Hiroshima And Nagasaki. But Remember Toyama Too
by Cary Karacas and David Fedman
AAF officials commonly used sanitizing language to mask the fact that they were targeting entire cities for destruction. Press releases described attacks not on cities, but on "industrial urban areas." Tactical reports set their sights not on densely populated neighborhoods, but on "worker housing."
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SOURCE: The Guardian
7/23/2020
Nazi Concentration Camp Guard Convicted over 5,232 Murders
A 93-year-old former SS guard has been found guilty of accessory to the murder of 5,232 people at a Nazi concentration camp in the final days of the second world war.
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7/19/2020
Who Was Our Worst President? Think About it When a Grim 75th Anniversary Arrives
by Paul W. Lovinger
The anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki should inspire consideration of the global fallout from Harry Truman's presidential decisions.
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11/17/19
The Whistleblowers of the My Lai Massacre
by Howard Jones
Evidence—and history—ultimately showed that an Army cover-up took place after the massacre. We know about it because of a single whistleblower and his two crewmates.
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SOURCE: History Channel
06/28/2019
Why Kaiser Wilhelm Was Never Tried for Starting World War I
Under the Treaty of Versailles, the German emperor was supposed to be tried as a war criminal. Why wasn't he?
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SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
6/6/19
Of Crimes and Pardons
by Rebecca Gordon
The United States was not always so reluctant to put national leaders on trial for their war crimes.
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