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The day my life was threatened by an unexploded World War II bomb in Aachen...
This diary is written for the collection of the World War II and Holocaust Library at the Daily Kos.(This diary is written by an American expat living in the European Union)As a young US Army soldier...
View ArticleSavior: Life in a jar
This diary springs from reading an obituary. Irena Sendler died on May 23. She was 98. During the Holocaust, in Poland, she saved Jews. A lot of Jews. Probably more than the better known Oscar...
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Remembering a veteran
My dad was an illegal immigrant.He came over from Canada with his family, and he arrived in the USA when he was 7 years old, and it was right at the time before the Great Depression, and he went to...
View ArticleD-Day Memories and a Stroll Down Omaha Beach, Part 1
(Note: this got to be too big for one diary so I'm making it into 2 or 3 parts) In honor of the 67th anniversary of D Day I thought I'd write about my trip there. One of the most moving experiences I...
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"!No Pasaran!" - The Abraham Lincoln Brigade and the Fight against Fascism in...
Crossposted at DocudharmaPart II of this diary will be posted on Wednesday, July 27th.In July 1936, the Spanish Army staged a military uprising against the democratically-elected Republican government...
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George Orwell and Howard Zinn on Patriotism and Nationalism
I first posted a slightly different version of this diary on July 4, 2010.Writing in May 1945 in his remarkable essay Notes on Nationalism, author George Orwell noted the following distinction between...
View ArticleOne Airman's Story
Tom Brokaw referred to my parent's generation as the "Greatest Generation". They probably earned it, some survived the Spanish Flu epidemic, they endured the Great Depression, Prohibition, they were...
View ArticleMy Grandfather Was a WWII Veteran
Like our soldiers then — and like our soldiers today, and in every war — he was a hero. We might not agree with the politicians that send them off to war, but they are heroes. They deserve our...
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August 23, 1942 - Stalingrad w/ Update
There are many ways to date the beginning of the Battle of Stalingrad. I've chosen August 23 because that was the date of the intensive German air bombardment that reduced the city to the piles of...
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"Surely We Have Perished" - Poets, Propaganda, and Dissenters in a Time of War
On September 1, 1939 the armed forces of Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany invaded Poland with overwhelming force, lightning speed, and unprecedented ferocity. World War II had begun and the term...
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Condemned as "Premature Anti-Fascists." Is There Ever a Bad Time to Oppose...
What You Missed in Part I of This DiarySpain has been etched in the hearts of our generation... and carried around like a terrible wound. Spain gave us our first taste of defeat, and because of her we...
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Comeback of the Hitler Youth haircut worries Jewish and progressive groups...
(Written by an American expat living in the European Union)The truth is though Adolf Hitler has been dead for a good long time, it seems he will haunt Europe forever. I understand the Daily Kos is a...
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