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A Chinese girl from one of the Japanese Army’s ‘comfort battalions’ awaits interrogation at a camp in Rangoon - 8 August 1945. The term “comfort women” was a euphemism used to describe women forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military during World War II.
Source: fyeah-history
Julien Bryan, Kazimiera Mika, a ten-year-old Polish girl, mourns the death of her older sister, who was killed in a field near Jana Ostroroga Street in Warsaw during a German air raid by Luftwaffe, September 1939.
Source: United States Holocaust Museum
Source: legrandcirque
Reconnaissance Plan: #Map of Sicily - Operation Husky (9 July – 17 August 1943)
300 Years of Fossil Fuels in 300 Seconds
via the Post Carbon Institute
Source: energyandwaste
This Day in History: Executive Order 9066 & Japanese Internment Camps
On February 19, 1942, Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066 allowing the US military to create domestic exclusion zones and remove people from them.
“Within days,” the Los Angeles Times reminds us, “the military began removing all Japanese Americans and Japanese from the West Coast.
“Within months, about 110,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans – almost two-thirds of whom were U.S. citizens –were moved to internment camps scattered through eastern California, Arizona and other Western States.”
The LA Times Framework blog has a great slideshow of the images they published at that time.
Images: Lead image is a sign notifying people of Japanese descent to report for relocation, via Wikipedia. Photos via the LA Times Framework blog.
Meant to reblog this yesterday, but today works too.
I remember raging that my U.S. History textbook literally only had one short, measly paragraph about the internment. This is a very important part of our history, and we should learn and remember it, unless we want to repeat it (see talks of internment of American Muslims after 9/11).
Source: futurejournalismproject
Remembering the Nazi Scientist Who Built the Rockets for Apollo
Few figures in the history of technology provoke a reaction as quickly as Wernher von Braun. The rocket scientist was a card-carrying Nazi who built the world’s first ballistic missile with slave labor from concentration camps. As the war wound down, he surrendered to the Americans and took his rocket-building team and talents to the United States. Eventually, he became a leader in the American space program, building the rocket (the Saturn V) that carried Apollo 11 to the moon. Today would have been his 100th birthday. He died in 1977.
Roger Launius, a senior curator in the Space History Division of the National Air and Space Museum, wrote a nuanced evaluation of the man’s life.
Wernher von Braun was a stunningly successful advocate for space exploration and has appropriately been celebrated for those efforts. But because he was also willing to build a ballistic missile for Hitler’s Germany, with all of connotations that implied in the devastation and terror of World War II, many of his ideals have also been appropriately questioned. For some he was a visionary who foresaw the potential of human spaceflight, but for others he was little more than an arms merchant who developed brutal weapons of mass destruction. In reality, he seems to have been something of both.
This is beautiful. That awkward moment when a movie in the 30s explains the struggles of humanity 70+ years later…
Always reblog
Source: minorityineverything
- Peter Gelderloos, An Anarchist Critique of the Iraq War (via miu-sherandhiscollar)
- Howard Zinn on Kurt Vonnegut (via axelgonz08)
Source: weareoneearth
Derrick Jensen -
Holocaust (The Other Side of Darkness)
Source: socialuprooting
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