“A few days later, from a wall along the river, Martha Gellhorn watched the Soviet troops move on. ‘The army came in like a flood; it had no special form, there were no orders given. It came and rolled over… — Geert Mak Copy Share Image
“After mentioning these and other examples, Modris Eksteins correctly observes that the Holocaust was not exclusively a German affair. Hitler may have found ‘willing… — Geert Mak Copy Share Image
“The retaliation came in all varieties. One variety came largely from the Soviet soldiers. When they entered East Prussia in January, their propaganda officers… — Geert Mak Copy Share Image
“The disaster at the Chernobyl plant, along with the war in Afghanistan and the cruise-missile question, is generally seen today as the start of… — Geert Mak Copy Share Image
“It was Thucydides who described the dealings between states as a world in which the strong do as they like and the weak put… — Geert Mak Copy Share Image
“Jonge meisjes gingen er prat op pervers te zijn; als men vermoedde dat je op je zestiende nog maagd was, had dat in die… — Geert Mak Copy Share Image
“During the Second World War 70,000 Jews were murdered in Latvia, 30,000 of them by summer 1941. In Lithuania, almost all of the country’s… — Geert Mak Copy Share Image
“Then there is the machine that belonged to Louis Blériot himself. I found an old newspaper article by the Dutch correspondent Alexander Cohen, dealing… — Geert Mak Copy Share Image
“The Kristallnacht had to be carefully orchestrated, while the Viennese pogroms had largely flared up of their own accord. In Das Schwarze Korps, the… — Geert Mak Copy Share Image
“In a certain sense the Holocaust can be seen as an expression of an almost religious fanaticism, and at the same time as a… — Geert Mak Copy Share Image
“Hitler’s regime maintained its generally accepted authority in Germany almost until the bitter end. In fact, large parts of the population supported that regime… — Geert Mak Copy Share Image
“A few days later, from a wall along the river, Martha Gellhorn watched the Soviet troops move on. ‘The army came in like a… — Geert Mak Copy Share Image
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