Tensions between the three victorious western powers and the Soviet Union had always existed. But the Cold War between the U.S. and the Soviet Union broke out “officially,” when Stalin decided in 1948 to blockade the three western sectors of Berlin; it ended in 1989, when the German people decided to tear down the Berlin wall. Papers listed in this section deal with this post-war era, which was, in a way, foreseen by Goebbels in February 1945, when he stated that a Soviet iron curtain would descend across Europe.
By Nikola Stedul ∙ May 1, 2004
The ongoing legal proceedings in the Hague against Serb and Croat war crimes suspects, including the Serbian ex-president Slobodan Milosevic, must be put into wider perspective. The unfortunate and often irrational hatred between Serbs and Croats had for decades been stirred up and kept alive by the Communist Yugoslav secret police. The longevity of the…
By Wolfgang Pfitzner ∙ February 1, 2003
On August 4, 1964, network television was interrupted at 11:36 p.m. EDT so President Lyndon B. Johnson could tell the nation that the U.S. warships USS Maddox and its sister ship USS C. Turner Joy had been attacked in a place called the Gulf of Tonkin by North Vietnamese PT boats. Already two days earlier,…
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