Tag: World War I

Memorial stone for the Prisoner-of-War Camp Rheinberg 1945. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

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Americans are routinely called upon to reckon with the darkest chapters of their history. The institution of slavery, Jim Crow laws, and the internment of Japanese Americans during World War Two: these are subjects of documentaries, school curricula, museum exhibitions, and public apology. That reckoning, however uncomfortable, is broadly accepted as necessary. Yet there is one group whose treatment at American hands is almost never inserted into this conversation: the Germans. (more…)

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Propaganda is a 1928 tract written by Jewish marketing strategist (and Sigmund Freud nephew) Edward Bernays. It’s brief, but it could have been a lot briefer. Basically, Bernays has four main ideas about his eponymous subject matter, which he applies and reapplies over and over. It quickly gets tedious, but don’t let the tedium fool you. Propaganda is an extremely valuable work—especially for what white advocates are trying to accomplish today. (more…)

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When an unsuspecting member of the public waddles into the Royal Academy of the Arts expecting, perhaps, to find some edifying emblem of beauty and power—only to be confronted by the likes of Damien Hirst licking his lips over a decaying ram carcass in a glass box, Grayson Perry in the quasi-paedophile drag of a 13 year old American schoolgirl, and Marina Abramović sitting abstemiously in the same plastic chair for over nine hours—it is perhaps worth asking with him what has happened to modern art, without resorting to insult his however mediocre cultural intelligence. (more…)

Joseph Nash, The Autumn Manoeuvres, Officers Playing at Kriegs Spiel, or the “Game of War” (1872) (Courtesy of Wikipedia)

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In my last essay, and against my better judgement, I quoted from memory something that Winston Churchill might or might not have said. I could be wrong; people attribute all sorts of things to Churchill that he never said. This, of course, launched a discussion about the Second World War in the comments. (more…)

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The song “Aqualung,” the title track on a Jethro Tull album from 1971 bearing the same name, is quite familiar to those such as myself who were born in the middle of the Pleistocene epoch. Although it’s one of the best-known songs in Jethro Tull’s repertoire owing to its striking riff, its full meaning isn’t obvious. From a superficial reading of the lyrics, it seems to be about a bum checking out girls from a park bench while suffering from chronic bad health. (more…)

David L. Hoggan

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Part 2 of 5 (Part 1 here, Part 3 here)

Given that both the United States and the Soviet Union were far larger and more powerful than Germany, and that the British themselves were still presiding over an enormous empire, one may wonder why Britain’s leadership was in such agreement on the supposedly urgent need to resist a far smaller power’s efforts to consolidate more of the German-speaking population of Central Europe within her borders. (more…)

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David L. Hoggan
The Forced War: When Peaceful Revision Failed, 2nd ed.
Newport Beach, Calif.: Institute for Historical Review, 2023

David Hoggan (1923-1988) was an American historian who received his doctorate from Harvard University in 1948 with a dissertation on The Breakdown of German-Polish Relations in 1939. (more…)

German soldiers celebrating Christmas in a trench.

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After the First World War’s initial opening phase of movement ended, the belligerents on both sides of the Western Front dug in to shelter from modern weaponry. What began as hastily-prepared rifle pits were formed into continuous lines of trenches across France and Belgium that stretched from the English Channel in the north to Switzerland in the south. Trench warfare on an unprecedented scale had begun.

The enduring image of the First World War comes from the Western Front: Opposing trench lines separated by the devastated interim space of mud, corpses, and shell craters that was no man’s land. (more…)

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Correlli Barnett
The Collapse of British Power
Frome & London: Butler & Tanner Ltd., 1972

Correlli Barnett is one of the rare British historians who views the Second World War as a disaster rather than in the usual flummery proclaiming that it was Britain’s “finest hour.” Barnett frames the scale of the calamity by illustrating Britain’s situation thusly: (more…)

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This week’s episode of The Writers’ Bloc features two men from the nations of the former Yugoslavia, host Nick Jeelvy with guest Dr. Tomislav Sunić, discussing the breakup of the country and the lessons today’s dissidents can learn from it, and it is now available for download and online listening. (more…)

“We are Making a New World” (1918) by Paul Nash, Imperial War Museum

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English original here

Traduit par Le Fauconnier

Une lecture Nationaliste Blanche de l’ouvrage de Dominique Venner:

Le Siècle de 1914: Utopies, guerres et révolutions en Europe au XXe siècle, Paris, Pygmalion, 2006 (more…)

Cecil Rhodes

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Part I here, Part II here, Part III here, Part IV here, Part V here, Part VI here, Part VII.1 here, Part VII.2 here, Part IX here

The Superpowers Eclipse the European Nation-States

Despite the intense political rivalry among the European Great Powers, Europe in the nineteenth century managed to avoid the widespread destruction of the twentieth century’s two World Wars. (more…)

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Do not believe the poster of this 1952 film. Do not. Wait ‘Till the Sun Shines, Nellie, isn’t the pleasant, bubbly, Technicolor singfest that is promised, although the song with all its nostalgic sentiment is there. Its appearances, however, evoke sadness and regret, much like old family photos tend to.

The action begins in the 1890s aboard a train chugging to Chicago, carrying Ben Harper (David Wayne) and Nellie (Jean Peters). (more…)