In the early 20th century, Antonio Gramsci noted that the West simply was not “buying” Marxism. When World War 1 erupted the proletariat did not rise up and overthrow their oppressors in the industrialized West. (They did to some degree…

His name is probably not a household name in America today, but legions throughout our society are marching to his ideas and carrying out his designs in virtually every aspect of American culture. You need to know who he was,…

How could one person save 2,500 children from extermination camps? One determined woman, Irena Sendler of Poland, did just that. She was only 4 feet, 11 inches tall. Yet during the early years of Nazi occupation of Poland she risked…

In 1943 the German National Socialists that occupied the Netherlands instituted a draft to scoop up as many able-bodied young men as possible, so that they could be carted off as slave-laborers for the German war machine. Thousands of Dutch…

Johannes Bogaard of Niew Vennep, the Netherlands, had only two years of formal education, and that was in elementary school. After the age of eight, he worked full time on his family farm. That was the only life he knew,…

In the summer of 1940, the little Baltic nation of Lithuania was being flooded by Jewish refugees from Poland. Lithuania had its own considerable Jewish population, and all were concerned not only about the Soviet take-over of the little country,…

You find heroes in the strangest places. They are not always soldiers fighting incredible odds, or people in the medical profession discovering breakthrough cures. Sometimes they are obscure government workers, overlooked by most people, but still there quietly doing the…

When the National Socialist armies of Germany overran most of Western Europe in 1940 they did not immediately round up Jews and send them off to death camps. The Nazis used a slow, methodical approach of discrimination at first, followed…