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The label "Fascism" is used to describe any movement or political ideology inspired by Benito Mussolini's Italian Fascism. As a rule, Fascism is associated with dictatorship or a strict hierarchical, authoritarian structure where the state gets total control. Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini's beliefs are two prime examples of what…
What Started WW2? Military Causes Although a variety of different factors caused World War Two, the main event and the trigger for what started WW2 was Germany's invasion of Poland in September 1939. "The Causes of World War 2" For the full "History Unplugged" podcast, click here! Of course the…
German Prisoner of War Camps The Thai-Burma Railroad - The Second World War Experience Centre Children of the Camps - PBS The Geneva Convention in brief- Learn Peace Geneva Convention - Human Rights Liberty The Great Escape (true story) - Wing Commander H K Rees Conscientious Objectors - Peace…
In 1939 there were just two Prisoner of warcamps in Britain. By the end of the war; there were more than 600. Each camp was given a number and was either a disused building - factory, college, hotel etc, or was a specially constructed building known as a Nissen hut. A typical Nissen…
Japanese internment camps were the sites of the forced relocation and incarceration of people of Japanese ancestry in the Western United States during the Second World War and established in direct response to the Pearl Harbor attack. They remain arguably the most notorious example of war-time hysteria driving public policy…
The following article on Japanese POW camps is an excerpt from Warren Kozak's Curtis LeMay: Strategist and Tactician. It is available for order now from Amazon and Barnes & Noble. There were more than 140,000 white prisoners in Japanese POW camps. Of these, one in three died from starvation, work, punishments or from diseases for…
The Great Escape, as it came to be known, was a mass escape attempt from the prisoner of war camp Stalag Luft III located near the Polish town of Zagan. The purpose-built camp was opened in April 1942 and the Germans considered it to be practically escape-proof. Prisoners were fairly…
The following article on German POW camps in World War Two is an excerpt from Barrett Tillman' D-Day Encyclopedia. It is available for order now from Amazon and Barnes & Noble. The above map shows some of the German POW camps were located in Nazi-occupied countries during the second world war. The most well…
In 1939 there were just two Prisoner of war camps in Britain. By the end of the war; there were more than 600. Each camp was given a number and was either a disused building - factory, college, hotel etc, or was a specially constructed building known as a Nissen…
The Geneva convention laid the groundwork for the post-war world. In 1859 a Swiss man, Henry Dunant, was horrified to see thousands of wounded soldiers after a battle being abandoned with no one to offer them aid or help. Dunant suggested that voluntary relief societies should be set up and…
