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We read Mein Kampf in its hundredth anniversary year with the wisdom of hindsight but also horror-struck at the Israeli state ...
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Get out of the heat this summer and feel your blood boil – come to New York Historical’s new exhibit, “Blacklisted: An American Story” and be horrified by the recognition that the assault of civil ...
In his ability to identify the true enemy and fight it, Trump is close enough to Churchill. He seems properly intent on seeing things through to a decisive victory.
“Liberty & Justice for All” read one sign on the outskirts of Middlebury (along Route 7 where the car caravan from the Mass ...
Clark used the wartime record she discovered in her grandfather’s scrapbook, which was compiled by two of his sisters, to ...
As artwork goes, it's stunning — a giant tapestry of a blond, blue-eyed hunter holding a spear, a falcon perched on his arm, a fox sneaking behind his feet and a stag immediately behind him. Oak ...
Camouflage in World War 2 was the first time camouflage was used en masse by all sides. Each side had a different approach to camouflage but it was the Germans who were at the forefront of ...
Originally, it was a modern art collection within the Musée du Luxembourg. Then in the late 1920s, early ’30s, there’s this idea: Let’s make it its own museum.
More: Nazi diaries, forgers at the Vatican: How Delaware became a hotbed for solving art crime During the Holocaust, Nazi Germany seized hundreds of thousands of pieces of artwork from Jewish people.
In 2016, Congress unanimously passed the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery (HEAR) Act, spearheaded in the Senate by Senator Cornyn, to ensure Holocaust survivors and their heirs could access U.S.