Category: Totalitarism
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Heinrich Himmler: the story of a Holocaust mastermind who could not bear the sight of blood
Heinrich Himmler was an ordinary, inconspicuous fellow who could be considered a decent bank or other official, or rather not noticed at all on the street.
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The Ukrainian Famine: Stalin’s Genocide With Millions Dead
One of the neuralgic points of Ukrainian resistance to anything Russian grows out of the dark events of the early twentieth century—e.g. Stalin’s famine.
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Kristallnacht: A Tragic Prelude to the Holocaust
86 years have passed since the prelude to the Holocaust, a coordinated anti-Jewish pogrom that went down in history as Kristallnacht.
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Operation Border Stone: How the Communist Trapped People at Fake Borders
Deceive, lure, and eliminate. A devilish trap in the form of a meticulously planned elimination of opponents of the Czechoslovak communist regime operated like a perfectly oiled machine for several years. Here is the story of Operation Border Stone.
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Police Battalion 101: Ordinary Men Turned into Killers by Nazism
Who were the people who could obey orders to kill civilians, including the elderly and even children? Surprisingly, they were very ordinary people. What kind of people could possibly follow orders to kill civilians, including the elderly and even children? Many of us have likely asked ourselves a similar question when reading books or watching…
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Gulag camp: the Soviet death machine for slave labor.
The Soviet Union also had its own network of labor and concentration camps. They were called gulags, and here is their brief history.