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The historical precedent for America’s fast food strikes

Thousands of American fast-food and retail-workers striked last week, in protest of their extremely low wages.  These strikes have a historical precedent...

22 December 2013 by Jan Huisman

Vienna Philharmonic withdraws honorary awards for top-nazi’s after 68 years

The world famous Vienna Philharmonic orchestra has posthumously declined six nazi-leaders their honorary awards. Among them are Arthur Seyss-Inquart and Baldur von Schirach...

21 December 2013 by Jan Huisman

American post-war policy created conditions for Kim-dynastie to become all powerful

Last week, the new Korean leader Kim Jong Un executed his uncle, who was accused of betraying the “warmest paternal love” by his 30-year-old nephew...

20 December 2013 by Jan Huisman

These are the last days of paper money. A historical survey

Some eschatological thinkers expect that the end of the world is nigh as soon as paper money isn’t used anymore. If that’s true, the last judgement is upon us...

20 December 2013 by Jan Huisman

Neanderthal-DNA found in 65% of modern Asians

The Neanderthal-genome is published, which makes it possible to do a wide range of research on comparative evolution.Researchers prooved the interbreeding between humans and Neanderthals already...

19 December 2013 by Jan Huisman

Read Alfred Rosenberg’s diary online

It was quite a media-buzz when the American government announced that the diary of Alfred Rosenberg was found...

18 December 2013 by Jan Huisman

Today is Willy Brandt’s 100th birthday

As mayor of West Berlin, as Foreign Minister and as Chancellor of Germany, Willy Brandt (1913-1992) changed the Federal Republic of Germany (BDR) like no other politician...

18 December 2013 by Jan Huisman

‘East Side Gallery’ preserved for future generations

The world-famous ‘East Side Gallery’, the east side of the Berlin wall that’s covered with paintings from artist all over the world, is constantly threatened by building-projects...

17 December 2013 by Jan Huisman

Polish hero Witold Pilecki went to Auschwitz in 1940 – voluntarily

It is hard to imagine how a 39-year old father of two deliberately walked into a razzia of the SS on the 19th of September, 1940...

13 December 2013 by Jan Huisman

Edited version of Hitler’s Mein Kampf is still to be published

Despite the cancellation of the Bavarian state government to fund a scientifically annotated edition of Adolf Hitlers’s ‘Mein Kampf’, the Institute of Contemporary History (Institut ...

12 December 2013 by Jan Huisman

Nazi-loot or rightful property: How Gurlitt sr. obtained the Munich art-treasure

The Munich art-treasure keeps raising questions. Journalists have now researched the background Cornelius Gurlitt’s father, Hildebrand Gurlitt ( 1895-1956 )...

26 November 2013 by Jan Huisman

Remembered: The murder of the Mirabel sisters

Today it is exactly 53 years ago that the three Mirabal sisters were killed. The women opposed the dictatorial regime of Rafael Trujillo in the Dominican Republic...

25 November 2013 by Jan Huisman
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