World War II
Revisiting Manzanar
June 21, 2010This spring I joined a pilgrimage to the place where I was incarcerated with my family and thousands of others almost 70 years ago, and wondered: could it happen again?
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Recalling the Holocaust
April 12, 2010It was 65 years ago that hundreds of concentration camps across eastern Europe were liberated.
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Dresden beats the Nazis
February 17, 2010The Berlin anti-fascists waiting near the Spree River at 4:30 AM for the buses to Dresden were sleepy, cold and nervous.
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The fall of the wall — a view from Berlin
November 10, 2009BERLIN - Moments of mass euphoria, wonderful as they are for those involved, do not always explain history. And for me, too many issues and questions remain unexplained or simply unasked.
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Port Chicago disaster remembered
July 24, 2009320 men died on July 17, 1944, in a munitions explosion aboard a ship being loaded at the Port Chicago Navy Magazine with armaments bound for the war in the Pacific.
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