Tag WWII

Sebald on Dresden 1945

It’s been 70 years since the Allies bombed Dresden. Soviet propaganda liked to insinuate that the rationale for the bombing was to destroy as much as possible of the part of Germany bound to fall under Communist control – the part that was…

Women of Kurdistan: free or enslaved?

How can one reconcile recent reports of brave, independent Kurdish women defending their ancestral land with earlier accounts of widespread honor killings of girls and women in Kurdistan? Can one claim that the female fighters and the murdered girls came…