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I can certainly sympathize with writers who don’t want to put themselves or their loved ones at risk.

Adam Hochschild

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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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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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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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I think in many ways, the Spanish Civil War was the first battle of World War II.
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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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No one has better summed up the American appetite for spectacle, the link between sports and politics, and the absolute madness of George W. Bush’s Iraq War.
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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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Because they wanted a sympathetic ally in power. So I think it really was the opening act of World War II.
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Its seemingly inexplicable outbursts of violence-is shaped far less by what we celebrate and mythologize than by the painful events we try to forget.
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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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No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at piece.
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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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All over Budapest, statues have been replaced, museum exhibits have been redone, to turn ethnic Hungarians, not Jews, into the prime victims of the Germans during World War II.
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The late Nadine Gordimer in South Africa, for example, had a wonderful ability to get her country’s injustices and contradictions down on paper.
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In Canada, the U.S. and most of Europe it may be easy to take political stands, this is something for which you can be forced to pay with your life, or your freedom, in many other parts of the world, from Iran to Russia to Pakistan to China.
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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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