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World War II Era
Making Sense of Historical Patterns:
Former UN Ambassador Richard Holbrooke --"The lesson of each genocide is the same: The killing really takes off only after the murderers see that the world, and especially the United States, is not going to care or react.
Late twentieth, early twenty first century:
Sudan
Crimes of War Project. Is there Genocide in the Sudan? A discussion.
Rwanda
Rwanda and Genocide in the Twentieth Century
Human Rights Watch. Leave none to tell the story: Genocide in Rwanda
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina
Genocide in Bosnia: The Policy of Ethnic Cleansing
Earlier examples:
Armenians in Turkey
Haiti
Machetes Haunt a Novel Recalling the 1937 Haitian Massacre
An Apparent Contradiction? Popular perceptions of Haiti and the foreign policy of the Dominican Republic.
"Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?"-- Adolf Hitler, August 22, 1939.
The Holocaust:
Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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| Victims of the Armenian genocide | Genocide in Rwanda |
Clothing of Srebrenica victims |
Darfur, Sudan |
Jewish women in the Holocaust |
From JSTOR:
William B. Wood, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, New Series, Vol. 26, No. 1 (2001), pp. 57-75
Ervin Staub, Political Psychology, Vol. 21, No. 2 (Jun., 2000), pp. 367-382
Philip Verwimp, The Journal of Conflict Resolution, Vol. 47, No. 4 (Aug., 2003), pp. 423-442
Helen M. Hintjens, The Journal of Modern African Studies, Vol. 37, No. 2 (Jun., 1999), pp. 241-286
Mart Bax, Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 70, No. 1 (Jan., 1997), pp. 11-19
Judith Hippler Bello, Peter H. F. Bekker, Paul C. Szasz, The American Journal of International Law, Vol. 91, No. 1 (Jan., 1997), pp. 121-126
Alisse Waterston, Antigona Kukaj, American Anthropologist, Vol. 109, No. 3 (Sep., 2007), pp. 509-518
John Hagan, Alberto Palloni, Science, New Series, Vol. 313, No. 5793 (Sep. 15, 2006), pp. 1578-1579
Scott Straus, Foreign Affairs, Vol. 84, No. 1 (Jan. - Feb., 2005), pp. 123-133
Hans V. Kaltenborn, Adolf Hitler, The Wisconsin Magazine of History, Vol. 50, No. 4, Unpublished Documents on Nazi Germany from the Mass Communications History Center (Summer, 1967), pp. 283-290
Claude R. Foster, Jr. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 450, Reflections on the Holocaust: Historical, Philosophical, and Educational Dimensions (Jul., 1980), pp. 1-19
Erika Bourguignon, Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 78, No. 1 (Winter, 2005), pp. 63-88
William I. Brustein, Ryan D. King, International Political Science Review / Revue internationale de science politique, Vol. 25, No. 1, Religion and Politics. Religion et politique (Jan., 2004), pp. 35-53
"A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic"--Joseph Stalin
Film review:
Bridge Over the River Kwai
Death Railway/death statistics
Articles on the Australian medical personnel working on the railway. Also sketches by POWs.
SECRETS OF THE DEAD . Bridge on the River Kwai . Background | PBS
Bridge on the River Kwai; the true story
Patton
Patton: Ordeal and Triumph by Ladislas Farago
The Patton Society Homepage (Life of the General)
The history of the famous Patton speech
The Pianist
Szpilman's Warsaw: The History behind The Pianist
Władysław Szpilman information and biography
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Annotated Bibliography:
Women in World War II
What Did You Do in the War, Grandma? Women and World War II
American Women's History: World War II
| 070.4 C | Colman, Penny. | Where the action was: women war correspondents in World War II. |
| 305.4 H | Hartmann, Susan M. | The home front and beyond: American women in the 1940s. |
| 331.4 C | Colman, Penny. | Rosie the riveter: women working on the home front in World War II. |
| 940.54 G | Granger, Byrd H. | On final approach: the women airforce service pilots of W.W. II. |
| 940.54 P | Pennington, Reina. | Wings, women, and war: Soviet airwomen in World War II combat |
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