Category Archives: History

Our dear friend Jackie Danicki asked if we had any thoughts on this story: After more than 60 years, Nazi documents stored in a vast warehouse in Germany were unsealed Wednesday, opening a rich resource for Holocaust historians and for survivors to delve into their own tormented past. The treasure of documents could open new […]

General John J. Pershing fought Muslim insurgents in the Philippines before World War I. His methods were politically incorrect, but quite effective. Today, he’d be hammmered ruthlessly by the press, court martialed, and thrown in the brig for G-d knows how long. But keep in mind that “Pershing is the only person, while still alive, […]

His subjects were mostly children and teenagers at the time, terrified witnesses to mass slaughter. Some were forced to work at the bottom rung of the Nazi killing machine — as diggers of mass graves, cooks who fed Nazi soldiers and seamstresses who mended clothes stripped from the Jews before execution. They live today in […]

As hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews were being gassed to death and then burned to ashes in Auschwitz, German officers, guards, physicians, office clerks and concentration camp bureaucrats were frolicking under the shadow of the crematorium. Click here to go to the article. And make sure to view the slide show. One of the […]

Seraphic Secret has long maintained that some of the biggest criminals on the planet are pacifists, those murderous peaceniks who self-righteously proclaim that all violence is wrong. Inevitably, these people end up enabling some of the worst dictators on the earth, and often these moral paragons end up enabling genocide. G-d forbid they should pick […]

Military history teaches us about honor, sacrifice, and the inevitability of conflict. Try explaining to a college student that Tet was an American military victory. You’ll provoke not a counterargument—let alone an assent—but a blank stare: Who or what was Tet? Doing interviews about the recent hit movie 300, I encountered similar bewilderment from listeners […]

Hat Tip: Seraphic Friend, Billy “Pup” Cochrane Vintage Knives

The national myth in Germany is that the German army, the Wehrmacht, did not participate in the genocide of World War II. This was, so the myth goes, exclusively the province of the SS, the Einsatzgruppen, and local fascist collaborators. Common sense has always whispered that this is nonsense. Such a division of labor cannot […]