Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDAfter all, where else in the world at this point did you have Americans in uniform who were being bombed by Nazi planes four years before the U.S. entered World War II?
More Adam Hochschild Quotes
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I think in many ways, the Spanish Civil War was the first battle of World War II.
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The Messerschmitt 109 fighter plane for example, the Stuka dive bomber, the 88 millimeter artillery piece, which could be used both for antiaircraft purposes and also shelling on the ground.
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To bring us this vivid, searing account of the wide network of human trafficking and servitude which spans today’s globe.
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Mussolini, in 1935, went and then in the next year, conquered Ethiopia, acquiring himself a colony.
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You can sense the vast inequalities of Tsarist Russia in [Anton] Chekhov and [Lev] Tolstoy.
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You’ve got politicians in power or vying for power who are taking tactics and elements of their appeal from the playbook of fascism.
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I’m after a snake and please God I’ll scotch it.
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Ronald Reagan perfected the subtler version long ago by talking about “welfare mothers” – a code phrase for people of colour.
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The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
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So people at the time really saw fascism not just as an evil but as an aggressive evil that seemed to be spreading.
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Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
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You know, by 1936, Hitler was already talking very loudly about his desire to expand to the east.
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It’s tempting to want to blame it all on an easily identifiable target: Muslims, immigrants, refugees, blacks, Jews.
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Many of the principle weapons that the Nazis used during World War II had their first trial in combat in Spain
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No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at piece.
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