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The Banality of Evil : Hannah Arendt On How To See Evil And Survive It

The Banality of Evil : Hannah Arendt On How To See Evil And Survive It

In 1961, The New Yorker commissioned Arendt to report on the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem ...
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Dennis Wheatley, the Prince of Thriller Writers, and How He Helped Defeat the Nazis

Dennis Wheatley, the Prince of Thriller Writers, and How He Helped Defeat the Nazis

Wheatley was pretty well a quasi-fascist during most of the 1930s (Hermann Goering was a fan of his books and once invited him to Germany to meet the Nazi leaders) but somehow, and with the recommendation of his wife who was an MI5 driver, he ended up working in the offices of the War Cabinet. ...
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Women On The Homefront Railroad: Epic 1943 Portraits by Jack Delano

Women On The Homefront Railroad: Epic 1943 Portraits by Jack Delano

"I've always felt that photographs for me were primarily for reproduction and for mass distribution. A photograph is something for lots and lots of people to see." ...
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“The Future is Ours” – Sydney Teenagers in 1946

“The Future is Ours” – Sydney Teenagers in 1946

We are the fortunate people of the earth. The future is ours. We are strong in the midst of our unharmed land... ...
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A German Soldier’s Photographs of Jews Forced Into A Ghetto in Poland

A German Soldier’s Photographs of Jews Forced Into A Ghetto in Poland

In 1940 a German soldier took these photographs of Jews being sent to the ghetto in Nazi-occupied Poland ...
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Building the ‘Arsenal of Democracy’: Alfred T. Palmer’s Extraordinary Wartime Color Portraits

Building the ‘Arsenal of Democracy’: Alfred T. Palmer’s Extraordinary Wartime Color Portraits

"Arsenal of Democracy" was a slogan used by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt first used in a radio broadcast delivered on 29 December 1940. ...
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Happy and Glorious! Fantastic Pictures of VE Day in London, 1945

Happy and Glorious! Fantastic Pictures of VE Day in London, 1945

London's party that ended all parties - one week after Hitler's suicide. ...
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The Life and Death of ‘Our Aeroplane Girl’ – English Aviatrix Amy Johnson

The Life and Death of ‘Our Aeroplane Girl’ – English Aviatrix Amy Johnson

Had I been a man I might have explored the Poles or climbed Mount Everest, but as it was my spirit found outlet in the air. . . . ...
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London Library Miraculously Survives Blitz (1940)

London Library Miraculously Survives Blitz (1940)

On the evening of 27 September, 1940, Germany bombed London's Holland House. But they missed the books ...
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The True Story of The Holocaust Train Rescued From The Heart of Darkness – Friday, April 13th, 1945

The True Story of The Holocaust Train Rescued From The Heart of Darkness – Friday, April 13th, 1945

‘I cannot believe, today, that the world almost ignored those people and what was happening. How could we have all stood by and have let that happen? They do not owe us anything. We owe them, for what we allowed to happen to them.’ – Carrol Walsh, Liberator ...
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Guy Gibson of the Dambusters, and his Desert Island Discs

Guy Gibson of the Dambusters, and his Desert Island Discs

In February 1944 Guy Gibson VC appeared on Desert Island Discs with Roy Plomley, just seven months later he died. ...
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Wonderful Cecil Beaton Photographs of the Tyneside Docks in 1943

Wonderful Cecil Beaton Photographs of the Tyneside Docks in 1943

It must have all seemed a bit incongruous watching the great society photographer walking around the Tyneside Dockyards taking pictures... ...
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