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"It is widely acknowledged that Congo became an East-West battlefield during the first half of the decade of the 1960s, yet the participation of Cuban exiles in the struggles is rarely noted. In this volume Villafaña details the contribution made by Cuban exiles to the preservation of democracy in Congo. When Congo was given its independence by Belgium in the 1960, most of its people believed their ...

Reveals the chronological and geopolitical history of concentration camps from 1890s Cuba to the Philippines and southern Africa in the early twentieth century, to the Soviet Gulag and detention camps in China and North Korea during the Cold War. Pitzer discusses their use for civilian relocation and exposing their role as dehumanizing sites for political repression that have claimed millions of lives. ...

At Guantanamo Bay detention camp, history has proved that concepts of right and wrong can all too easily become distorted by expediency and ambiguity. This program examines the lives of high-profile individuals from both sides of the razor wire who have intimate knowledge of the horrors of Gitmo: Murat Kurnaz, a former inmate who was detained without trial for five years; former Navy officer Matthew ...

An autobiography of the historian of the Holocaust, who emigrated in April 1939, along with his parents, from Vienna to the U.S. via Cuba. Most of the book discusses the conceptions behind his work, the archives he used, the problems of publication, and the criticism directed at him especially because he concentrated on the perpetrators rather than the victims, and because he wrote about the Nazis' ...

Memoirs written in Havana in 1941 by Freund (1898-1982), who endured forced labor in Berlin from April 1941, in a laundry and then in an armaments factory. She had sent her three children to England in January 1939, following the "Kristallnacht" pogrom. She managed to emigrate to Cuba with her husband in October 1941, only a few days before emigration was no longer permitted; in 1944 they went on to ...

Describes the journey of the ship "St. Louis", aboard which more than 900 German Jews tried to escape to Cuba in spring 1939. Despite a previous agreement, Cuban authorities refused to accept the refugees, as did the U.S. government. Captain Gustav Schröder, who was ordered to return to Germany, managed to set his passengers ashore at Antwerp. One-fourth of them were able to travel to England, while ...