I just fucking love reading historic documents, but there are times (like today) that it can be emotionally overwhelming. Reading Japanese propaganda books and newspapers from pre- and during world war 2 today, knowing, now, what the facts are, is challenging.
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The Camp That Even Nazis Feared: A footnote in history The Jasenovac Concentration Camp in Yugoslavia became Croatia, the fascist puppet state in April 1941, Jasenovac complex and its subcamps—Ciglana (the Brickworks), Gradina, Stara Gradiška, Uštica and more—the Croation Ustaše turned nationalist fanaticism into genocide. #HistoryMatters #BalkansGenocide
https://youtube.com/watch?v=EKsCPU1UHvA&si=4Jfrvg-xsydE1al6. #NaziCroatia
The Camp That Even Nazis Feared: How Bad Was The Jasenovac Concentration Camp?

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Celal Şengör lauds İlber Ortaylı as Turkey's foremost intellectual, emphasizing his profound understanding of history and his character. He ranks Ortaylı among the world's most significant historians. #IntellectualLegacy #HistoryMatters

Why it matters:
This is about who gets to tell America’s story. Censoring mentions of slavery, Indigenous violence and climate science warps public memory and hands historical truth to political whim.

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