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A diary from March 19.

3.3: As the result of a regrettable border incident, the Red Army marched into Poland today. Reich Chancellor Brüning declared at a press conference that there was no reason for alarm, since the Soviet government had solemnly assured him that it had no aggressive purposes of any kind. At the request of the Communist Party, [...]

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The Battle of Life or Death…

being fought between us and world Bolshevism is a conflict that will determine not only the fate of our people, but that of all of humanity, for the foreseeable future. The German people that is using all its strength and bringing heavy sacrifices in this battle wants to have clarity about the character and nature [...]

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Harvest of Despair

The greatest achievement of the Centre is the production of the award-winning documentary film Harvest of Despair which had its premiere at the University of Toronto on Sunday, October 21, 1984 at 7:00 PM. For the first time in history this film brought the 1932-33 terror famine in Ukraine into the awareness of the world. Perpetrated by [...]

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Allied Nations Occupy Germany

Pending a peace treaty, Allied leaders met at Potsdam in 1945 and divided Germany into four occupation zones–French in the southwest, British in the northwest, American in the south, and Soviet in the east. Berlin, deep in the Soviet zone, was also divided into four sectors The International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg tried Nazi leaders [...]

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World War II: Axis and Allied movements in Europe and North Africa, 1940-42

By the early part of 1939 the German dictator Adolf Hitler had become determined to invade and occupy Poland. Poland, for its part, had guarantees of French and British military support should it be attacked by Germany. Hitler intended to invade Poland anyway, but first he had to neutralize the possibility that the Soviet Union would resist the invasion of [...]

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Human Nature Won’t Allow People To Just Get Along

The European Union and the United Nations, as well as globalization and advanced technology, were all supposed to trump age-old cultural, geographical and national differences and bring people together. But for all the high-tech veneer of the 21st century, the world still looks a lot like it did during the last hundred years and well [...]

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Fisher: Poland’s revolution offers grim lessons for Facebook generation’s freedom-fighters

SZCZECIN, Poland — The gates of the main shipyard in Szczecin are padlocked, its hulking cranes and other heavy equipment, silent. The only sign of life anywhere in the docklands on a December morning was a scrawny black cat scurrying across the vast grounds under a glowering winter sky. With little work to be had [...]

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