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...Otto Reich, U.S. special envoy to Latin America, has affirmed that “Castro has supported terrorist groups in every country in this hemisphere...
...them to collectively avoid becoming too polarized in a discussion. “If people are coming from any ideological distance whatsoever, in order to have any serious political conversation, you need to move slowly and not have so many voices at once,” says Ezekiel W. Reich ’03. “Therefore, a real conversation about Iraq couldn’t happen at our dinner table with all of us at once...
Hitler, by some reports, spent the week before the invasion confined to the Reich Chancellery, the opulent quarter-mile edifice he had built to symbolize Germany's might. During that time, he subsisted on a spartan diet of vegetables, buttered bread and his custom-brewed 1%-alcohol beer. He slept little, usually going to bed at sunrise...
...previous World War. As more than 1 million troops flooded into Poland and began taking civilian prisoners, Hitler drove to the Reichstag to appear before the Parliament. "I myself am today, and will be from now on, nothing but the soldier of the German Reich," he said. "I shall not take off this uniform until we have achieved victory." Within two days Britain and France jumped to Poland's defense, and World War II was under way in Europe. --By Jodie Morse
...atrocities of the Third Reich and the Japanese prisoner-of-war camps in World War II have been extensively archived in survivors' accounts, scholarly histories and documentary films. Yet the gruesome orgy of self-vivisection carried out in Cambodia by the Khmer Rouge from 1975 to 1978 left behind far fewer records. History in Cambodia remains intertwined with legend, as it has since the classical era of Angkor, and the regime's reign of terror was hideously efficient, leaving very few survivors to give witness to the inner workings of the machinery of death...