Tom Holland sur Twitter : "Coming up on R4 in 15 minutes, my adaptation of Thucydides. Today: Pericles' funeral speech & the horrors of plague. Rowan Hofmeister sur Twitter : "#post #historyteacher. #post #historyteacher What did democracy really mean in Athens? - Melissa Schwartzberg. While we might consider elections to be the cornerstone of democracy, the… Merkel says honesty, generosity key in postwar reconciliation… Merkel says honesty, generosity key in postwar reconciliation - INTERNATIONAL. TOKYO - Agence France-Presse Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, talks with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, in front of a bodhisattva statue displayed at the Nezu Museum in Tokyo Monday, March 9, 2015.
AP Photo German Chancellor Angela Merkel waded into the fraught area of wartime forgiveness during a visit to Japan on Monday, saying that "facing history squarely" and "generous gestures" are necessary to mend ties.Merkel was speaking in Tokyo ahead of the 70th anniversary of Japan's defeat in World War II, in which Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's conservative views on Tokyo's war crimes are under scrutiny, and as China and South Korea continue to call for ever more contrition. "Germany was lucky to be accepted in the community of nations after the horrible experience that the world had to meet with Germany during the period of National Socialism (Nazism) and the Holocaust," she said. " Liberte As the first female radio operator sent into Nazi-occupied France ,… Fun way for students to build interactive timelines! Plus.google. Plus.google. Plus.google. Plus.google. Plus.google. Untitled. Untitled. Untitled. Untitled. Untitled. Untitled.
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Rowan Hofmeister - Google+ - Great blog post at Oxford University Press by Dr. Greg… Awesome Stories. Century. 1921 Foundation of War Resisters’ International, with Sections set up in Great Britain, the Netherlands, Germany and Austria. Its statement: ‘War is a crime against humanity. We therefore are determined not to support any kind of war and to strive for the removal of all causes of war.’ Its symbol: a broken rifle. By 1939 there were 54 WRI Sections in 24 countries, including America. 1921 Women in Sweden initiated a School Peace Day, to promote peace education, and other countries followed the example. WILPF AND THE DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION In America, peace activists were harassed throughout the decade because of their internationalism, and because it was supposed by their opposers that they were communist revolutionaries. 1923 In America: the foundation, by three pacifist women, of the War Resisters League, uniting Christian and humanist pacifists in the anti-war movement.
ARISTIDE BRIAND (1862-1932) was a French socialist statesman. Remembering Carl von Ossietzky. The decision to award President Barack Obama the Nobel Peace Prize produced a torrent of heckling from left and right. A consistent criticism is that Obama hasn’t yet acted as a statesman making peace, and some Republicans are harsher, saying the choice has “debased” the Nobel Prize or was a calculated slap in the face to the Republican Party and its leadership, particularly George W. Bush. But such criticism reflects a simple misunderstanding of the purposes of the prize.
It’s true that the award has on occasion gone to statesmen peacemakers, like the two former serving U.S. presidents who received it, Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. But if we survey the entire list, we find that the bulk of the recipients were not statesmen. More often than not, the recipient has been someone who helped shift the world dialogue in a specific direction, sometimes a person who rejected domestic chauvinism in favor of peace and suffered for it.
How will the Obama award be judged in seventy years? Champions of Peace - 9 - Carl von Ossietzky. An Ordinary Berliner on the Nazi Exhibition of "Degenerate Art" In The Turbulent World of Franz Göll, historian Peter Fritzsche sifts through the lifetime of diaries kept by an ordinary twentieth century Berliner. A few weeks back, Fritzsche offered excerpts from the diaries to present the evolution of Göll’s attitude towards Germany’s Jews. Below, he gives us Göll’s thoughts on his 1938 visit to the infamous “Degenerate Art” exhibition staged by the Nazis as an attack on modernism. Hitler’s Third Reich wove a series of extraordinary spectacles through the fabric of daily life. The Nuremberg Rallies, May Day rallies, and Führer birthday celebrations all attempted to testify to the unity and enthusiasm of the German population. Huge propaganda exhibitions also aimed to show Germans new, more racially sound ways of looking at the world.
One of these was the exhibit on “Degenerate Art,” which opened in Munich in summer 1937 (the cover of the exhibit program is pictured at right). “The picture is not a bloody-minded depiction of the degenerate, war is.”