- Barbed-Wire Imperialism: Britain's Empire of Camps, 1876-1903, by Aidan Forth - Review
Internment in the colonies served a darker purpose beyond aid efforts Resource Type: Article Published: 2018 A book review of Aidan Forth's "Barbed-Wire Imperialism: Britain's Empire of Camps, 1876-1903", which provides new insights and ulterior motives behind Britain's aid efforts in southern Africa.
- Beyond Judgment
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- The British Camps
Though it reached its horrific heights at Auschwitz and Buchenwald, the British, not the Nazis, pioneered the concentration camp. Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 Today, the expression "concentration camp" evokes the horrors of Nazi Germany, conjuring up black-and-white images of Auschwitz and Belsen. But Germans were neither the first nation to make use of concentration camps nor the last.
- Death Train: the earliest art to expose horror of concentration camps
The Mexican art collective Taller de Gráfica Popular used lino prints to transmit an explicit, committed political message Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 The Mexican art collective Taller de Gráfica Popular used lino prints to transmit an explicit, committed political message. A member of the collective, Leopoldo Mendez, working in 1943, was probably the first to depict the Holocaust.
- Diary of Bergen-Belsen
Resource Type: Book Published: 2009 Hanna Lévy-Hass, a Yugoslavian Jew, emerged a defiant survivor of the Holocaust. Her observations, recorded in her own incomparable voice, shed new light on the lived experience of Nazi internment. Lévy-Hass stands alone as the only resistance fighter to report on her own experience inside the camps, and she does so with unflinching clarity in dealing with the political and social divisions inside Bergen-Belsen.
- Eichmann in Jerusalem
A report on the banality of evil Resource Type: Book Published: 1965 Hannah Arendt's report on the trial of Adolph Eichmann.
- 100 Wörter des Jahrhunderts
Resource Type: Book Published: 1999
- Film as a Subversive Art
Resource Type: Book Published: 1974 Analyzes how aesthetic, sexual and ideological subversives use film to change and demystify.
- 5 of the worst atrocities carried out by British Empire, after 'historical amnesia' claims
Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 A YouGov poll found 43 per cent of Brits thought the British Empire was a good thing, while 44 per cent were proud of Britain's history of colonialism. The Independent looks at five of the worst atrocities carried out by the British Empire.
- The History of the German Resistance 1933-1945
Widerstand, Staatsstreich, Attentat Resource Type: Book Published: 1969 A thorough portrayal of the plans, hesitations, frustrations, and failures of the opposition to Hitler.
- The Holocaust Chronicle
A History in Words and Pictures Resource Type: Book Published: 2003 A chronological account of the genocide of European Jews at the hands of the Nazis.
- The Life of Death: An Exchange
Resource Type: Article Published: 1985 The really great form of courage and honesty that could be witnessed under the conditions of the Holocaust was when a Pole opposed the opinion or the silence of other Poles, when a Jew opposed other Jews, and when Germans opposed other Germans or Nazism in general. This is the type of courage which we should learn about and emulate.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 20, 2016
Fake News Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 2016 "Fake news" is the latest mania to convulse the mainstream media. All at once, we're being subjected to an outbreak of hand-wringing articles and commentary about obscure websites which are supposedly poisoning public opinion and undermining democracy by spreading "fake news." Since we don't like to be left out when a new fad comes on the scene, Other Voices is jumping on the bandwagon too, with this, our last issue of 2016, devoted to "fake news." Our focus, however, is not so much on the crackpots and trolls making mischief on the fringes, but on the dominant actors in the fake news business: governments and the corporate and state media.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 22, 2017
Secrecy and Power Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 2017 Secrecy is a weapon the powerful use against their enemies: us. This issue of Other Voices explores the relationship of secrecy and power.
- Publicised Cruelty: Scott Morrison Visits Christmas Island
Resource Type: Article Published: 2019 Australia is reopening the immigration detention centre on Christmas Island. The prime minister made a public tour of the facilities.
- Resistance during World War II
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- Resistance in Europe: 1939 - 45
Resource Type: Book Published: 1976 Essays on the resistance against Hitler during World War II.
- The Scramble for Africa
White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912 Resource Type: Book Published: 2003 Describes the brief vicious scramble by Europe's imperial powers to seize colonies throughout the continent of Africa. Pakenham strips the impresarios of imperialism of their veneer of Victorian heroism and reputations for statemanlike vision, to reveal them as men with bloated and often vicious egos.
- Die Standhaften
Über den Widerstand in Kassel und Hessen-Waldeck 1933-1945 Resource Type: Book Published: 1978 Lokalhistorische Studie zum Widerstand gegen den Nationalsozialismus.
- Vorkuta uprising
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article A major uprising of the concentration camp inmates in Vorkuta, Russia in July-August 1953.
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