Author: Jan Huisman
-
The top 5 best history documentary series
There are so many good history documentaries out there – and lots of crappy ones as well. As a historian and documentary lover, I watched a lot historical documentaries. Good ones. And many bad ones. This list is about the first group.True history documentaries, made by historians. Other criteria are the presentation, the chosen subject…
-
Black Hawk Down-incident (1993) revisited
On the 6th of October 1993 two American Black Hawk helicopters were shot down in Mogadishu, Somalia. They were on a mission to capture or kill a band of local warlords as they were shot by militia fighters using rocket-propelled grenades. The pilots were lynched by mobs. What followed was a savage rescue operation by…
-
Tape recordings of the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials online
The tape recordings of the Frankfurter Auschwitz Trials can now be heard on the website of the Fritz Bauer institute. These audio files contain the recordings of the trial, held on December 20th, 1963, against 22 former SS officers and employees of the infamous Auschwitz extermination camp. It was the second process against Nazis who…
-
Putin’s letter may mark the end of American hegemony
At first sight Putin’s letter in the New York Times criticizes America’s meddling in the affairs of sovereign countries. Closer reading shows that the writing is meant as an eye-opener for the American public, to show a truth they will not like: that the era of America’s hegemony has ended. The short lived ‘pax Americana’ The letter…
-
Book Review: Cold Case Kennedy
The assassination of John F. Kennedy still stirs the minds of historians and conspiracist alike, given the amount of publications on the matter. The murder on that faithful 22th of November 1963 still echoes strongly in our collective memory, while many believe the 35th president of the United States would have been able to cope…
-
CIA says Josip Broz Tito was a Russian
Thats wat the Serbian newspaper Blic Monday bases on a released document of in the U.S. secret intelligence agency CIA. In this four pages long document an analysis is made of Tito’s use of the Serbo-Croatian language during a speech held in 1977 by the former president of Yugoslavia. According to this analysis, Tito used…
-
Ancient Egyptian beads made from outer space material
A new study of the London’s University College’ Institute of Archaeology suggest that ancient Egyptian beads were formed from iron meteorites that fell to Earth from outer space. This sheds new light on the mastery of Iron Craft by the Egyptians: These 5000 year old artifacts were created 2000 years before the start of Egypt’s…