Events and personalities of the interlude between the two World Wars, focusing on the three major powers of the new, looming conflict: Germany, the U.S., and Soviet Russia.
By Daniel W. Michaels ∙ July 31, 2012
Simon Sebag Montefiore, Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar, Knopf, New York, 2004, 785 pp. The British Book Awards’ History Book of the Year has been awarded to the distinguished Anglo-Jewish journalist/novelist Simon Sebag Montefiore for his Stalin: the Court of the Red Star.[1] Montefiore’s special writing interest is in matters Russian, especially in…
By Daniel W. Michaels ∙ September 1, 2005
Ronald Radosh, Mary R. Habeck, Grigory Sevostianov (eds.), Spain Betrayed: The Soviet Union in the Spanish Civil War, Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 2001, 576 pp. Stanley G. Payne, The Spanish Civil War, the Soviet Union, and Communism, Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 2004, 400 pp. The received legend about the…
By Wolfgang Strauss ∙ August 1, 2004
Alexander Solschenitsyn, “200 Jahre zusammen.” Die russisch-jüdische Geschichte 1795-1916 (200 Years Together. The Russian-Jewish History 1795-1916), Herbig, Munich 2002, 560 pp., €34.90; “Zweihundert Jahre zusammen,” Die Juden in der Sowjetunion (200 Years Together. The Jews in the Soviet Union), ibidem, 2003, 608 pp., €39.90. It may be said without hesitation that Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s 200 Years…
By Germar Rudolf ∙ August 1, 2004
In celebration of the Golden Calf called political correctness, a “No-No word of the year” is chosen in Germany at the beginning of each new year (Unwort des Jahres). In 2003, the word chosen was “Tätervolk,” which means “perpetrator people” or “perpetrator nation”. This term is usually used to refer to the German people as…
By Thomas Dunskus ∙ August 1, 2004
Johannes Rogalla von Bieberstein, Jüdischer Bolschewismus. Mythos und Realität (Jewish Boshevism. Myth and Reality), Edition Antaios, Dresden 2002, 312, €29.- “There is hardly any myth that is more important and which has more consequences than the one about ‘Jewish Bolshevism.’”—Prof. Dr. Ernst Nolte, Preface In a major work published a few years ago, Alexander Solshenizyn…
By Daniel W. Michaels ∙ August 1, 2004
Viktor Suworow, Marschall Schukow – Lebensweg über Leichen, Pour-le-Mérite, Selent, Germany, 2002, 350 pp., €25.80 Prologue Every war produces genuine military strategists and heroes, many of whom die on the battlefield or whose exploits go unrecognized. Decorated “Hero of the Soviet Union” four times, Marshal Georgi Zhukov was indisputably the most honored military figure in…
By Bill Wright ∙ February 1, 2004
Don Heddesheimer, The First Holocaust: Jewish Fundraising Campaigns with Holocaust Claims during and after World War One, Theses & Dissertations Press, Chicago 2003, pb., 140 pp., $9.95. George Santayana was famous for his aphorism “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Perhaps those who believe in the myth of the ‘six…
By Francis Dixon ∙ November 1, 2003
Edwin Black, War against the Weak: Eugenics and America’s Campaign to Create a Master Race, Four Walls Eight Windows, New York 2003, 592 pp., hardcover, $27 War against the Weak is a much-heralded attempt to make the American eugenics movement of the early twentieth century the direct inspiration for Hitler’s euthanasia program, if not the…
By Henry Churchill King, Charles R. Crane ∙ August 28, 1919
King-Crane Commission Report Map medium resolution map (123K)high resolution map (294K) Introduction: The King-Crane Commission Report The King-Crane Commission Report Appendix: The King-Crane Commission Report
By Martin H. Glynn ∙ October 31, 1919
(Former Governor of the State of N.Y.) The American Hebrew, October 31, 1919: page 582 From across the sea six million men and women call to us for help, and eight hundred thousand little children cry for bread. These children, these men and women are our fellow-members of the human family, with the same claim…
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