Archival Spaces 354 Prelude to World War II: Documentaries Uploaded 23 August 2024 In the Summer of 1938 my dad, Jerome V. Horak, was mobilized into the Czechoslovak Army and received rudimentary basic training when it looked like an invasion by Nazi Germany was imminent. Less than a month later, he was sent home, afterContinue reading “354 Prelude to War”
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325: Mission to Moscow
Archival Spaces 325: Mission to Moscow (1943, Michael Curtiz) Uploaded 7 July 2023 For much of cinema’s history, the U.S. government has engaged in various forms of political film propaganda. In the modern era film and video have communicated soft power, rather than the nation’s actual military might, producing public service messages, educational, and documentaryContinue reading “325: Mission to Moscow”
308: Maddow’s “Ultra”
Archival Spaces 308 Rachel Maddow’s Ultra Podcast Uploaded 11 November 2022 I’ve been listening to Rachel Maddow’s podcast, “Ultra,” narrativising the activities of home-grown American Fascists in the immediate pre-World War II period who openly supported and even carried out terror acts for the Nazi government of Adolf Hitler. The podcast has reminded me ofContinue reading “308: Maddow’s “Ultra””
296: Reinhard Heydrich’s End
Archival Spaces 296 Operation Anthropoid Uploaded 27 May 2022 Exactly 80 years ago, on 27 May 1942, the so-called Reichsprotektor of Bohemia and Moravia, Reinhard Heydrich, was wounded in an assassination attempt by members of the Czechoslovak Army in exile in an operation code-named Anthropoid. Flown in by the Royal Air Force and coordinated onContinue reading “296: Reinhard Heydrich’s End”
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