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ShortsThe destruction of Germany’s Sixth Army at Stalingrad unfolded between a military map and the daily experience of men trapped inside the pocket. Soviet Operation Uranus encircled the army…
Franz Suchomel had served at the Treblinka killing center. Decades later, Claude Lanzmann interviewed him while assembling the testimony that became Shoah. The surviving recording is an…
In 1965, Che Guevara challenged the economic behavior of socialist countries in a speech in Algiers. He later disappeared from public life in Cuba and joined an unsuccessful guerrilla…
Yamato, Shinano and HMS Barham were lost under very different circumstances. Yamato was overwhelmed by American carrier aircraft on its final mission in April 1945. Shinano, converted from…
Switzerland remained outside direct participation in the Second World War, but neutrality did not place it outside the conflict’s economy or moral choices. Trade, financial transactions…
