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An American film dramatizing the destructive effects of racial and religious prejudice. The film was made to make the case for the desegregation of the US Armed Forces. Reel 1: shows a fake wrestling match and crooked gambling games with narration: "There's a good old-fashioned word for people like this. We call them suckers." An agitator addresses a street crowd; he almost convinces an American man ...

"In 2017, Myanmar's military launched a campaign of violence against the Rohingya minority that UN experts later said amounted to a genocide. More than seven hundred thousand civilians fled to Bangladesh in what became the most concentrated flight of refugees since the Rwanda genocide of 1994. The warning signs of impending catastrophe that had built over years were downplayed by Western backers of ...

In 1928, Winston Churchill seemed to be at the very height of his career. He was Chancellor of the Exchequer and when he spoke in the House of Commons, MPs of every party flocked to hear his oratory. The leadership of the all-powerful Conservative party seemed within his grasp. A year later, however, all had changed. The Conservatives themselves were defeated, and out of office, Churchill found himself ...

Tekstplakkaat van de Duitse legerleiding, tekst op roze papier: 'Bekantmachung - Wiederholt habe ich die Niederländische Bevölkerung davor gewarnt, ... Fr. CHRISTIANSEN'. Datering 14 augustus 1941. F. Chistiansen heeft het over Feindbegünstigung (hulp aan de vijand) van zes Engelse vliegers die op 7 augustus 1941 een noodlanding maakten. Ze werden geholpen maar nog dezelfde dag opgepakt. Van degenen ...

Tekstplakkaat van de Duitse legerleiding op roze papier: 'Bekantmachung - Wiederholt habe ich die Niederländische Bevölkerung davor gewarnt, ... Fr. CHRISTIANSEN'. Datering 14 augustus 1941. F. Chistiansen doelt op Feindbegünstigung (hulp aan de vijand) van zes Engelse vliegers die op 7 augustus 1941 een noodlanding maakten. Ze werden geholpen maar nog dezelfde dag opgepakt. Van degenen die hen hielpen ...

Michael Barnett, who worked at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations from 1993 to 1994, covered Rwanda for much of the genocide. Based on his first-hand experiences, archival work, and interviews with many key participants, he reconstructs the history of the UN's involvement in Rwanda. In the weeks leading up to the genocide, the author documents, the UN was increasingly aware or had good reason to ...

The United States Office of War Information (OWI) was created on June 13, 1942, to centralize and control the content and production of government information and propaganda about the war. It coordinated the release of war news for domestic use, and using posters along with radio broadcasts, worked to promote patriotism, warn about foreign spies, and recruit women into war work. The office also established ...

Julien Hequembourg Bryan (1899-1974) was an American documentarian and filmmaker. Bryan traveled widely taking 35mm film that he sold to motion picture companies. In the 1930s, he conducted extensive lecture tours, during which he showed film footage he shot in the former USSR. Between 1935 and 1938, he captured unique records of ordinary people and life in Nazi Germany and in Poland, including Jewish ...

The United States Office of War Information (OWI) was created on June 13, 1942, to centralize and control the content and production of government information and propaganda about the war. It coordinated the release of war news for domestic use, and using posters along with radio broadcasts, worked to promote patriotism, warn about foreign spies, and recruit women into war work. The office also established ...

Notice issued May 14, 1940, by the German Supreme Military Commander to the Military Commander of the city of Utrecht, Netherlands, demanding the city's unconditional surrender to Germany. It warns that the city is surrounded by German forces, including Stuka bombers, and that the Dutch commander should consider sparing Utrecht and its residents the fate of Warsaw. If Utrecht does not surrender, it ...