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2) Genocide
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Series
Groundwork guides volume 3
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"What is genocide? Why does it happen? What can be done to prevent it from happening again? At the end of the Second World War, with the establishment of the United Nations, the holding of the Nuremburg Trials and the adoption of the Genocide Convention, the international community assured itself that genocide would never happen again. But never again has become a meaningless phrase. This book asks why. It also asks, what is genocide? Where has it...
4) Millennium evenings at the White House: 7.The perils of indifference :lessons from a violent century
Publisher
United States. White House
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
This item is a video recording of President William Jefferson Clinton and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton hosting the seventh White House Millennium Evening Lecture in the East Room of the White House. The title of this lecture is, 'The Perils of Indifference: Lessons from a Violent Century.'
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Language
English
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Americans call the Second World War "the Good War." But before it even began, America's ally Stalin had killed millions of his own citizens--and kept killing them during and after the war. Before Hitler was defeated, he had murdered six million Jews and nearly as many other Europeans. At war's end, German and Soviet killing sites fell behind the Iron Curtain, leaving the history of mass killing in darkness. Assiduously researched, deeply humane,...
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
A personal account by the Harvard Medical School lecturer and political activist traces his explorations into the psychological sources and consequences of some of the past half-century's most disturbing events as experienced by its victims and perpetrators.
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