And American soldiers were the victims of these things in Spain, American volunteers. So this war was really a testing ground for Hitler.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDNo international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at piece.
More Adam Hochschild Quotes
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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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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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Ronald Reagan perfected the subtler version long ago by talking about “welfare mothers” – a code phrase for people of colour.
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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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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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It’s tempting to want to blame it all on an easily identifiable target: Muslims, immigrants, refugees, blacks, Jews.
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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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I can certainly sympathize with writers who don’t want to put themselves or their loved ones at risk.
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I think [George] Orwell is right. There are certainly moments when political differences appear minor, and someone can claim to be non-political or to want to stay out of the fray, but today is not one of those moments.
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In his fierce, bold determination to see the lives of modern-day slaves up close, Benjamin Skinner reminds me of the British abolitionist of two hundred years ago
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Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings
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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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After 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?
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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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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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