Eichman and the Banality of Evil

Adolf Eichman was an “Oberstrumbannfuhrer” (Lt. Colonel) in the SS in World War II. He was hand picked by SS General Reinhard Heydrich to manage the logistics of transporting millions and millions of Jews to be murdered in the Nazi death camps. He did his...

Dealy Plaza

I just recently came back from a visit to Dallas Texas. An unusual city. . . no shopping area filled with restaurants in the downtown area (unlike New York or Chicago). We wandered into a Western Wear store where I finally found the pair of cowboy boots I’ve...

The 442nd RCT

They were Americans, willing to fight and die for America. And they were “nisei”– “second generation” Japanese who were born and raised here in the USA. Immediately following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt had...

Wannsee Conference

It was a conference of 15 high ranking Nazis, lasting only an hour and a half. But it was a meeting that sealed the fate of millions of Jews in Europe who were enduring Nazi occupation. Reinhard Heydrich, second in command of the SS, convened the conference on January...