Tag: World War II

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2008-11 General Toshio Tamogami, head of Japan's air force, loses his job after writing an essay seeking to justify Japan?s role in the second world war.
2008-03 “Ethnonationalism has played a more profound role in modern history than is commonly understood, and the processes that led to the dominance of the ethnonational state and the separation of ethnic groups in Europe are likely to recur elsewhere.” “A familiar and influential narrative of 20th-century European history argues that nationalism twice led to war, in 1914 and then again in 1939. Thereafter, the story goes, Europeans concluded that nationalism was a danger and gradually abandoned it. In the postwar decades, Western Europeans enmeshed themselves in a web of transnational institutions, culminating in the European Union.” -- Jerry Z. Muller, history professor of Catholic University
2007-08 "That fateful summer, 8:15 a.m. The roar of a B-29 breaks the morning calm. A parachute opens in the blue sky. Then suddenly, a flash, an enormous blast -- silence -- hell on Earth. The eyes of young girls watching the parachute were melted. Their faces became giant charred blisters. The skin of people seeking help dangled from their fingernails. ... Others died when their eyeballs and internal organs burst from their bodies -- Hiroshima was a hell where those who somehow survived envied the dead."
-- Tadatoshi Akiba, Hiroshima's Mayor
2002-04-17 “Marshall knew that our military victory against enemies in World War II had to be followed by a moral victory that resulted in better lives for individual human beings,”
Marshall’s work is “a beacon to light the path that we, too, must follow.”
-- George W. Bush, Virginia Military Institute, where Gen. George C. Marshall trained a century ago
1997 "The attitude of the American public toward the external projection of American power has been much more ambivalent. The public supported America's engagement in World War II largely because of the shock effect of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
- Zbigniew Brzezinski, The Grand Chessboard, 1997, (pp 24-5)
1981 For the period after the end of Second World War, the United States gained increasing prominence as the leading power of imperialist reaction, taking Germany’s place in this respect... And its ruling class managed, particularly during the imperialist era, to have the democratic forms so effectively preserved that by democratically legal means, it achieved a dictatorship of monopoly capitalism at least as firm as that which Hitler set up by tyrannical procedures...And this democracy could, in substance, realize everything sought by Hitler.
-- Gyorgy Lukacs -The Destruction of Reason (Humanities Press, Atlantic Highlands, 1981 at pp.765,770.
1944-09 German forces launched the first-ever successful missile attack against London.
1944 In the closing days of World War II, the Bretton Woods System was put in place to stabilize the world's currencies
1939-09 Iran declares its neutrality upon the outbreak of World War II.
"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the state can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie ... The truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the state."
-- Joseph Goebbels, minister of propaganda in Nazi Germany, 1933-1945

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