Carta OpinionGlobal, 01.10.2017 Riad Fouad Saade, empresario lianés y cónsul honorario de Chile en BeirutAnti-Semitism existed since ever Jews lived on our planet earth. Throughout history, the Jews suffered persecution, the latest and continuously reminded, being the Third Reich crackdown on German and European Jews. In my elementary school in Beirut, mid-forties of last centuries, I had “real”...
Belt, Boots and Spurs
Artículo London Review of Books, Vol. 39 (19) 05.10.2017 Jonathan Raban (on his father’s flight to Dunkirk)The war rescued my father, Peter Raban, from his first job as a probationary teacher in the West Midlands and restored him to his proper station as an officer and a gentleman. He had hoped to go on to university (Oxford or...
Secretos y crueldad bajo el Muro de Berlín, a 56 años de su construcción
Reportaje Infobae, 13.08.2017 Alfredo Serra
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14 mil soldados de la RDA lo levantaron en pocos días. Fue reforzado con nuevas estructuras a lo largo de los años, pero ni sus piedras ni los fusiles del poder soviético pudieron someter los sueños de libertad de los sometidos por el régimen comunista
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La Batalla de Stalingrado
Columna Revista de Historia, 18.07.2017 Joaquim Vandellós Ripoll
La batalla de Stalingrado, considerada por muchos historiadores como la más sangrienta de la historia, enfrentó entre el 23 de agosto de 1942 y el 2 de febrero de 1943 a la URSS y a la Alemania nazi. En junio de 1941 Alemania inició... Sophie Scholl y la resistencia anti-nazi en Alemania. Un acto de valentía
Artículo Revista de Historia, 25.06.2017 Lucía Luengo
“¡Oh libertad, cuántos crímenes se comenten en tu nombre!" El grito de Madame Roland en el momento de su ejecución en la guillotina en 1793- en pleno terror revolucionario- no ha dejado de escucharse. La plena libertad- en todos sus ámbitos- ha sido una... America’s First World War
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An English girl shakes the hand of an American solider as U.S. troops march through London on their way to France, Aug. 15, 1917. Just months before, Washington had declared war on Germany. (A. R. Coster/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)[/caption]
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As winter ended...How a Nation Lost Its Mind
Reseña de libro Los Angeles Review of Books, 20.11.2016 P.M. Candler Jr., ex profesor de teología (Baylor University)
Skies break over Nuremburg, gabled rooftops of the great medieval city radiant in autumn light. Orderly columns of troops march over the Pegnitz River. We see his winged chariot, a Junkers Ju 52,... Notes on the Twentieth Century
Artículo The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 280 (3) September 1997 Hans Koning, novelista y periodista holandés
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It was the bloodiest ever, but still some surprising good has come out of it
The Super Simple Reason Nazi Germany Crushed France During World War II
Artículo The National Interest, 18.02.2017 Daniel L. Davis, coronel retirado del ejército estadounidense[caption id="attachment_45818" align="alignnone" width="450"]
Adolf Hitler and his entourage visiting the Eiffel Tower in Paris on June 23, 1940. Wikimedia Commons /Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-H28708/CC-BY-SA[/caption]
In May 1940, the German Wehrmacht launched a lightning attack into France and within... The Casablanca Conference – Unconditional Surrender
Artículo The National Archive, 10.01.2017 Paul M. Sparrow, directorIn January, 1943, President Roosevelt embarked on a secret mission that would determine the course of World War Two, and ultimately the world we live in today. His destination – Casablanca, Morocco. His goal – to finalize Allied military plans with the British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill. It was a...