Author: huntert4

In the western world when anyone thinks of wartime atrocities their mind immediately goes to the Holocaust during World War II.  The systematic extermination of Jewish people by Hitler’s Nazi regime is widely considered one of the most abominable acts of violence by man against other men in the history of the world.  The Rape … Continue reading “The Rape of Nanking”

the Arab-Israeli conflict is one rife with contradiction and confusion.  What started it? Who started it? Why does it continue to this day?  For the most part those people who were educated in Westernized schools like most students in the United States learn about this conflict from the perspective of the Israelis, Europeans and Americans … Continue reading “Right of Return, Who’s is It?”

in the Aftermath of World War II there were over 10 million Displaced Persons in Germany.  These people included forced laborers, prisoners of war and Jews who had been forced into concentration camps as part of the “Final Solution”. For most of these people the decision on what to do once they were liberated was … Continue reading “Jewish Postwar Repatriation vs. Relocation”

Europe and the world in general faced many problems in the postwar time period.  The greatest question that faced world leaders was that of labor.  Over 60 Million people were killed in the war, not only men of fighting age but also women, children and older men.  The war not only devastated the physical cities … Continue reading “The Question of Labor”

In the time period immediately after World war II the Allies as the victors faced many problems most of which involved the economic revival that needed to happen in most areas of the world to bring the world economy back into a stable and long-term position.  What the world powers wanted to avoid was another … Continue reading “Making Europe Common”

In the articles Reconstructing the Hiroshima Maidens by David Serlin and The Veteran, His Wife, and Their Mothers by Rebecca Jo Plant we see an evaluation of two different types of reconstruction in the post war world.  Serlin writes his article about a group of Japanese women who were severely injured when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima … Continue reading “Postwar Reconstruction of the Body and Mind”

The debate about the place of veterans in society has long raged in American politics and is in the spotlight in the current Presidential Campaign.  The readings for this week focus on the experience of Russian and Australian soldiers after World War II.  After WWII veterans across the world struggled to find their way back … Continue reading “Society’s debt to Veterans”

World War II left Europe in shambles physically and biologically.  While whole towns and cities were physically destroyed so were families, children were the largest group displaced or without homes due to the death of their parents.  Eugene Kilischner estimated that “more than thirty million of the inhabitants of the continent of Europe have been transplanted … Continue reading “Populationism and The Value of Displaced or Orphaned Children”

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