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24 Jan 2025 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, international economics, International law, war and peace Tags: Nazi Germany, World War I, World War II
Was Germany Really Starved Into Surrender in WW1? (Documentary)
20 Jan 2025 Leave a comment
in defence economics, international economics, International law, laws of war, resource economics, transport economics, war and peace Tags: Germany, World War I
Assassination Attempt on Lenin – Chaos in Romania I THE GREAT WAR Week 182
18 Jan 2025 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, Marxist economics, war and peace Tags: Russian revolution, World War I
The Dutch Hunger Winter: The 1944/45 Famine
16 Jan 2025 Leave a comment
in defence economics, health economics, war and peace Tags: Netherlands, World War II
The Dutch Hunger Winter, also known as the Hongerwinter, was a devastating famine that gripped the Netherlands during the final months of World War II, from November 1944 to April 1945. This period of extreme hardship left a profound mark on Dutch society, shaped the collective memory of the war, and offered critical insights into […]
The Dutch Hunger Winter: The 1944/45 Famine
The Evacuation of Auschwitz and the Death March
16 Jan 2025 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of crime, International law, law and economics, laws of war, war and peace Tags: Nazi Germany, The Holocaust, World War II
From January 1945, in the final months of the Third Reich, approximately 250,000 concentration camp inmates perished during death marches and in numerous acts of mass slaughter. These prisoners were mercilessly murdered by SS guards, army and police units, and, in many cases, by civilian mobs as they passed through towns and villages in Germany,Austria […]
The Evacuation of Auschwitz and the Death March
Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points I THE GREAT WAR WEEK 181
12 Jan 2025 Leave a comment
in defence economics, International law, laws of war, politics - USA, war and peace Tags: World War I
Before the scramble (1876)
08 Jan 2025 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, war and peace Tags: Africa, age of empires, economics of colonialism
Machinations In The British High Command I THE GREAT WAR Week 180
05 Jan 2025 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of bureaucracy, Public Choice, war and peace Tags: World War I
Some Links
03 Jan 2025 1 Comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, economic history, economics of crime, economics of regulation, industrial organisation, international economics, International law, law and economics, politics - USA, war and peace
TweetArnold Kling ponders producers versus parasites. A slice: What I notice is that the elites on the Republican side tend to earn a living as producers. They make things that other people want or need. In contrast, elites on the Democratic side include many people one may think of as parasites. They depend on producers…
Some Links
Some Jimmy Carter observations from the 1970s
01 Jan 2025 Leave a comment
in business cycles, defence economics, economic history, economics of regulation, energy economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, politics - USA, war and peace Tags: Middle-East politics
Usually I am reluctant to criticize or even write about the recently departed, but perhaps for former Presidents there is greater latitude to do so. I never loved Jimmy Carter, and I saw plenty of him on TV and read about his administration on a daily basis in The New York Times. I fully appreciate […]
Some Jimmy Carter observations from the 1970s
Ludendorff Plans for a Spring Offensive I THE GREAT WAR – Week 179
29 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
The Christmas Truce of 1914: A Beacon of Humanity in the Midst of War
25 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
Amid the chaos and carnage of World War I, a remarkable event unfolded on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day in 1914 that remains a powerful symbol of hope and humanity. The Christmas Truce, an unofficial ceasefire on the Western Front, showed that even in the darkest of times, the human spirit can shine brightly. Setting […]
The Christmas Truce of 1914: A Beacon of Humanity in the Midst of War
British Advance At Passchendaele I THE GREAT WAR Week 165
23 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
The British Free Corps: A Historical Analysis of Propaganda, Treason, and Coercion
22 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of crime, law and economics, laws of war, war and peace Tags: World War II
The British Free Corps (BFC) stands as one of the more peculiar episodes of World War II, symbolizing Nazi Germany’s propaganda-driven attempts to exploit discontent and division among Allied prisoners of war (POWs). Though numerically insignificant and operationally negligible, the BFC has drawn historical interest as a study in the intersection of ideology, coercion, and […]
The British Free Corps: A Historical Analysis of Propaganda, Treason, and Coercion
Unpaid Life Insurance
21 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, International law, law and economics, property rights, war and peace Tags: Netherlands, The Holocaust
The Foundation for Individual Insurance Claims Sjoa (Stichting Individuele Verzekeringsaanspraken Sjoa) pays out life insurance policies of individuals who were persecuted as Jews during the Second World War in the Netherlands to their rightful beneficiaries. They have a list of approximately 2,500 individuals with life insurance policies that were likely not paid out to the […]
Unpaid Life Insurance
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