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The ‘Good War’ Myth of World War Two
by Mark Weber
WORLD WAR II was not only the greatest military conflict in history, it was also America’s most important twentieth-century war. It brought profound and permanent social, governmental and cultural changes in the United States, and has had a great impact on how Americans regard…
1944: US Normandy Invasion was “Tsunami of Lust”
Upon the occupation of France by American soldiers, French women had much to fear as large numbers of rapes and other terrible crimes were committed across the country.
by Mathieu von Rohr
AN IMPORTANT BOOK shows us that the “liberators” made a lot of noise and drank too much. They raced…
Taking Memorial Day Seriously
A classic essay by Kevin Alfred Strom; Americans should never again be asked to die in wars fought against our own interests.
by Kevin Alfred Strom
I THINK THAT MOST Americans have forgotten what Memorial Day is all about. It is now usually thought of as “Memorial Day Weekend,” and like so…
Love Your Race: Get Out There Today Through Sunday and Spread the Word!
Join us on the streets today — print and distribute as many Love Your Race fliers as you and your friends can manage. Be a participant — not a spectator!
by Kevin Alfred Strom
EVERY FEBRUARY 14th I do two things: First, I commemorate the anniversary of the horrific firebombing of Dresden,…
Dresden: A Real Holocaust
An American Dissident Voices classic broadcast
by Kevin Alfred Strom
EVERY FEBRUARY, we remember the Holocaust of Dresden.
Yesterday, I received a letter from a listener, J.B. in Great Britain, who has written a poem about that day of horror and terror, and I want to share that poem with you now:
Dresden…
The Blood of Dresden
Following is an extract from Armageddon in Retrospect in which the author describes the scenes of obscene brutality he witnessed as a prisoner of war in Dresden, and which inspired his classic novel Slaughterhouse-Five.
by Kurt Vonnegut (pictured)
IT WAS A routine speech we got during our first day…
Dresden 1945: The Devil’s Tinderbox
A review of Dresden 1945: The Devil’s Tinderbox, by Alexander McKee. New York: E.P. Dutton, Inc., 1982, 1984, with maps, photographs, index
by Charles Lutton
THE DESTRUCTION of the virtually undefended German city of Dresden by bombers of the Royal Air Force and U.S. Army Air Force, in mid-February,…
Will Dresden Burn Again?
AS EVERYONE knows, Germany is the most evil place in the history of the universe. Therefore, it follows that anyone who attempts to preserve Germany as the home of the Germans is a filthy smelly Nazi who deserves to be shoved in an oven as if he were a frozen store-bought pizza.
Sure, if you want to split…
The Horror of Dresden
95-YEAR-OLD British WW2 veteran Victor Gregg, like American author-to-be Kurt Vonnegut, was an Allied POW in Dresden when it was firebombed in 1945. Here he recounts the terrifying, dehumanizing experience for the BBC this week. For 40 years after this chilling experience Gregg never laughed —…
The Dresden Holocaust and the Numbers Game
by Kevin Alfred Strom
RABBI DAVID Kaufman quoted my essay and radio broadcast on the Dresden Holocaust in his column recently. His bias stands out like Bertie Wooster’s white suit. Kaufman is an unabashed Zionist, and told the Des Moines Register recently that his concern over events in Iran…
