And American soldiers were the victims of these things in Spain, American volunteers. So this war was really a testing ground for Hitler.
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I can certainly sympathize with writers who don’t want to put themselves or their loved ones at risk.
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Speaking of Germany in 1933, I don’t think you can remove yourself from politics when, in so many countries – the United States, Poland, Hungary, and many others
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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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A pioneer in this genre [ writing about the refugee crisis] : the book A Seventh Man, by the great John Berger, decades ago evoked the lives of migrant workers in Europe.
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And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor
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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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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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Hitler and Mussolini jumped in on the side of Francisco Franco and his Spanish nationalists, sent them vast amounts of military aid, airplanes, tanks and Mussolini sent 80,000 ground troops as well.
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Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today’s wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium
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And tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others’ lives.
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Compared with how we’ve ducked it in the United States, Canada should be really proud of how you have welcomed a significant number of refugees – far more, in fact, than we Americans have, even though our population is vastly larger.
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It sure is a rising tide, and we have a particularly nasty exemplar of it in the U.S., in Donald Trump.
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And he learned a great deal from it about the strengths and weaknesses of these different weapons.
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.
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