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Concentration Camp
In Germany the words 'protective custody' have a double meaning. Originally the term meant the incarceration of people who were threatened by others and who were guarded for their own safety so that they might be protected from their enemies. Now, however, men in protective custody are mostly those who are brought, for the 'protection of the people and the State,' into a concentration camp without hearing, without court sentence, without the possibility of redress, and for an indefinite time. Frequently people sentenced by a court are taken into protective custody by the Gestapo after serving their prison sentence, often directly from the prison gate. Such, for example, was the fate of Pastor Niemöller, who, after being released from prison, was taken into the camp Sachsenhausen near Oranienburg, the camp with which we shall be concerned here. He is in solitary confinement there, and I never saw him.More » -
The Long Road Home: China’s Rehabilitated War Veterans
During the Mid-Autumn Festival, when Chinese families traditionally gather, He Shaocong finally returned home from the war — World War II, that is. He had been away from his hometown of Yibin in China’s central Sichuan province for a lifetime, since he was abducted by a press gang at age 17 and forced into service for Chiang Kai-shek’s Kuomintang army. He played a part in one of China’s greatest victories, ousting Japanese forces from southwestern China to establish a supply link to India known as the Burma Road. But after the war, He and many of his comrades were separated from their families by China’s civil war, then by decades of internal chaos and repression. More » -
Ides of March – Beware the Ides of March and the Assassination of Julius Caesar
Because of the assassination and the soothsayer's exchange with Julius Caesar about the dangers he faced in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar tragedy, the Ides of March now signifies a fateful day. . -
Fetih 1453: Blockbuster Turkish Epic Revels in Ottoman Past
With Turkey’s geo-political star in the ascendant, it’s fitting that the country’s biggest ever film, released in theaters there Feb. 16, celebrates what is perhaps the Mediterranean world’s most defining historical moment. Fetih 1453 (or “Conquest 1453″) is a $17 million, chain metal-clad, scimitar-waving retelling of the 15th century Ottoman siege and eventual capture of the city of Constantinople — now Istanbul. When it debuted across screens in Turkey, the film commenced at 14:53 (2:53pm), the same digits as the year the great capital of the Byzantine Empire fell to the Turks led by Sultan Mehmet II, Fetih’s main protagonist. Its first weekend audience was the largest in Turkish cinema history. More » -
The priest who changed the course of history for the worse… by rescuing four-year-old Hitler from drowning in icy river
A four-year-old Adolf Hitler was saved from certain death after falling into an icy river while playing as a child, it emerged today. The man who would become leader of the Nazi party in Germany and kill millions of innocent people was rescued by another boy who grew up to become a priest, according to a newly-discovered German newspaper archive. The four-year-old future Fuhrer was living at the time in the Kapuzinerstrasse in Passau in Germany, just across the border from his native Austria.. .
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