“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 200,000 Jews were killed. (In Estonia there were only 5,000 Jews to start with, and most… — 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
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