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Created by John Eipper on 08/19/10 5:00 PM

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Crime (Ronald Hilton, USA, 05/26/11 12:55 am)

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Execution of John Wayne Gacy, May 10th, 1994 (David Duggan, USA, 05/10/19 1:35 pm) For those who may not remember it, today is the 25th anniversary of the execution of John Wayne Gacy, still the all-time leader of serial killers with convictions of 33 murders, all young boys. The bo ...
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Mueller Indicts 12 Russian Nationals for DNC Hack (Tor Guimaraes, USA, 07/15/18 6:36 am) I have received an interesting email, from which I quote: "Special Counsel Robert Mueller indicted 12 Russian intelligence officers on Friday in the hacking of the Democratic National Comm ...
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Orlando Nightclub Shooter Omar Mateen; "Bacha Bazi" (Massoud Malek, USA, 06/14/16 3:29 am) In a video, Seddique Mateen, the father of Omar Mateen, who committed the worst mass shooting in the US history, said: "He was a good and educated son; the sight of two men in Miami kissing anger ...
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Holocausts (John Eipper, USA, 08/26/10 5:02 am)

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75th Anniversary of Auschwitz Liberation (José Ignacio Soler, Venezuela, 01/27/20 2:06 pm) Yesterday I read a news item that was astonishing, to say the least. A significant percentage of European and US young people do not know what the Holocaust and Auschwitz were.  According to the ...
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75th Anniversary of Auschwitz Liberation: January 27th (Edward Jajko, USA, 01/21/20 3:56 am) A brief note, based in reading excerpts from the online version of the Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza as well as occasional looks into BBC News, Reuters, and The Guardian: T ...
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My Time as a Consultant with the US Holocaust Museum (Leo Goldberger, USA, 09/18/15 3:04 pm) To answer John E's question, I was indeed a consultant to the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC in its exhibition planning stage. There were three of us, the literary critic Lawrence ...
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Turkish Holocaust (John Eipper, USA, 08/26/10 5:02 am)

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German Parliament Recognizes Armenian Genocide (Bienvenido Macario, USA, 06/03/16 5:14 am) I think it is important to bring closure to this dark chapter of World War I, if the former Ottoman Empire is to have a good and lasting relationship with its non-Muslim European neighbors as modern-d ...
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Armenia, 100 Years Later (Richard Hancock, USA, 04/02/16 6:03 am) The April 2016 National Geographic has a melancholy article, "Ghost Lands: A century-old slaughter still haunts Turkey and Armenia," by Paul Salopek. This is part five of his serie ...
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Genocide Against the Armenian People, 1915 (Henry Levin, USA, 01/07/15 6:42 am) I'd like to call to WAISers' attention the following article in the New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/m ...
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History (John Eipper, USA, 08/26/10 5:02 am)

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CIA at 75; Reflections on National Intelligence Services (Consoly Leon Arias, Spain / Canary, 05/19/22 3:51 am) May 25th will mark 75 years since Harry Truman created the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), by signing the National Security Law, in the midst of the Cold War. This intelligence service is, if not t ...
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Finland's Winter War: Parallels with Ukraine War? (Cameron Sawyer, USA, 04/03/22 3:22 am) The Winter War of 1939, and the Ukraine War of 2022. Has no one noticed the parallels between the two wars? The Winter War in a nutshell: Finland was a province of ...
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Death of Sir John Elliott, Titan Historian of Spain (José Ignacio Soler, Venezuela, 03/11/22 3:25 am) In the midst of this crisis and the deluge of alarming and tragic reports, it seems appropriate to share some unfortunate news. The British historian and Hispanist John H. Elliott has passed away. < ...
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German Holocaust (John Eipper, USA, 08/26/10 5:02 am)

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Bernd Rother's "Franco y el Holocausto" (David Pike, -France, 01/21/17 5:51 am) I followed the good advice of WAISer Angel Viñas and ordered the fine work of Bernd Rother, Franco y el Holocausto. Now that I've read it, allow me to make a few points, from the t ...
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re: Holocaust: Voyage of SS St Louis (John Heelan, UK) (John Eipper, USA, 10/22/06 3:32 pm) John Heelan sends this response to Bienvenido Macario's 21 October post on the ill-fated 1939 voyage of the *SS St Louis*: There is a very good account of the SS St. Louis and the tragic ...
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re: Hitler and the Jews (Vincent Littrell, Belgium) (John Eipper, USA, 10/22/06 3:27 pm) Vincent Littrell writes: Rereading Christopher Jones's comment from 18 October, "Of course, Adolf Hitler only wished the best for the world, and the Allies were led to believe that hi ...
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Historical Figures (John Eipper, USA, 08/26/10 5:02 am)

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Daniel Florence O'Leary (1800-1854), Simon Bolivar's "Crann Taca" (Patrick Mears, -Germany, 03/30/21 9:18 am) On December 3, 1817, a seventeen-year old from Cork City, Ireland boarded the British corvette Prime, and left Portsmouth harbor for South America and a life of great adventure and accom ...
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Death of Stuart Christie, Scottish Anarchist and Would-Be Assassin of Franco (John Torok, USA, 08/22/20 7:01 am) Sorry not have been much in touch with WAIS of late. Since there are many in this group with a strong interest in the Spanish Civil War and aftermath, I thought this obituary of the Scottish an ...
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Trump, Coronavirus, and the Legacy of History (Anthony D'Agostino, USA, 03/20/20 4:09 am) Thinking about the very droll posting of Paul Pitlick and JE's comment (March 19th), I thought about my own WAIS note of November 2016, "Trump: the World Historical Individual." At ...
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