History Repeats Itself, Painfully So

A 1922 political cartoon on the British invasion of Iraq. In the 1920’s, Britain imposed a H?shimite monarchy on Iraq and defined the territorial limits of Iraq without taking into account the politics of the different ethnic and religious groups in the country, in particular those of the Kurds and the Assyrians to the north. During the British occupation, the Shi’ites and Kurds fought for independence.

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Building of the Nazi Germany, Part 2: The Politics of Racial Science

National Socialist Racial Science: Color Palettes for Eye-Color Classification (1937)

National Socialist Racial Science: Comparison of an “Aryan” and “Non-Aryan” Head from the Slide Series “Blood and Soil”

Inside of an Identification Card for Jews Issued in Berlin

Viennese Jews are Forced to Clean the Streets

“Albert Einstein: Authorial Fame Seems to be Relative!” National Socialist Charicature of Einstein’s Political Activity, Kladderadatsch, No. 39 (September 1933)

Der ewige Jude [The Eternal Jew], Film Poster (September 1940)

A Child’s Stroller with a Swastika on the Backrest in a Lower Bavarian Village (1937)

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Quite the Revelation

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The Building of Nazi Germany, Part 1

Adolf Hitler with Reichsbank President Hjalmar Schacht and the Directors of the Reichsbank (May 5, 1934)

Nuremberg Rally for Unity and Strength: Hitler Greets Protestant Reichs Bishop Ludwig Müller (right) and Catholic Abbott Schachleitner at the Tribune of Honor (September 1934)

Leading Industrialist Carl Friedrich von Siemens (left) and Banker Franz von Mendelssohn meet with Nazi party officials:

German Industrialists Salute the Flag at a Rally for the German Economy in Berlin

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A Book Burning Ceremony in Nazi Germany

On May 10th, 1933, university students and German citizens burned 25,000 volumes of books deemed ‘un-German’, as nationalist students marched in torchlight parades “against the un-German spirit.” The scripted rituals called for high Nazi officials, professors, rectors, and student leaders to address the participants and spectators. At the meeting places, students threw the pillaged and unwanted books into the bonfires with great joyous ceremony, band-playing, songs, “fire oaths,” and incantations.

Un-German Literature is Sorted Out for the Book-Burning Ceremony

Book Burning Ceremony: Against the Un-German Spirit (1933)