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In Memoriam: Professor Helmut Haeussler the Most influential Teacher in my Life
I received an e-mail from the History Department of California State University at Northridge this week that a memorial service is to be held for Professor Helmut Haeussler. Dr. Haeussler was my primary professor in the department during my undergraduate … Continue reading
Filed under History, remembering friends, world war two in europe
A Lack of Wisdom in a Sea of Facts
Dietrich Bonhoeffer “To understand reality is not the same as to know about outward events. It is to perceive the essential nature of things. The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in … Continue reading
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The Coming of Orwell’s 1984 27 Years Late….So Much for Timing
Yes my friends is finally 1984, well the Orwellian kind. I remember the first 1984, back in the good old days of the Cold War and all that. But that 1984 was more of a number and not very Orwellian. … Continue reading
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The War to End All Wars….and a Peace to end all Peace
It was the War to end all war On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month the guns fell silent across Western Europe and the war which had killed 16 million soldiers, sailors and civilians and … Continue reading
My God what have we Come To?
There are times like today when I think I felt safer in Iraq In Germany they first came for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t … Continue reading
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The Anniversary of Disaster: Stalingrad 67 Years Later
Madonna of Stalingrad: Drawn by a German Chaplain and physician the piece was taken out of the city by one of the last officers to get out. It is now displayed in the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in Berlin Sunday … Continue reading
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War Without Mercy: Race, Religion, Ideology and Total War
Dower, John W. War without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War.” Pantheon Books, a Division of Random House, New York, NY 1986. The study of war cannot simply be confined to the study of battles, weapons and leaders. … Continue reading
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