This photo conceals a clue to a brutal story of vengeance. Correction: Many of you pointed out that we erroneously used “Russia” and “Russian” interchangeably with “Soviet Union” and “Soviet” in this video. The Soviet Union was a multiethnic federation, and indeed many non-Russians bore the brunt of Hitler’s initial […]
🗃️ FROM THE ARCHIVES | ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED AUGUST 16, 2019 On August 14th, 2019, the Navajo Nation celebrated the legacy and history of the Navajo Code Talkers. The event began with a parade that took the surviving code talkers, their families and descendants into the heart of the Navajo Nation […]
It’s a Small, Small World: PTSD as Self-Imprisonment. Watch the newest video from Big Think: https://bigth.ink/NewVideo Join Big Think Edge for exclusive videos: https://bigth.ink/Edge ———————————————————————————- Big Think and the Mental Health Channel are proud to launch Big Thinkers on Mental Health, a new series dedicated to open discussion of anxiety, […]
He was a Nazi. After the war he joined an English football club and went on to be regarded as one of the most beloved players of his time. How? “Bernhard Carl “Bert” Trautmann EK OBE (22 October 1923 – 19 July 2013) was a German professional footballer who played […]
What’s better than winning a war? Well, not much really… But what’s better than losing a war? Pretending it never happened and continuing fighting! “Hiroo Onoda (Japanese: 小野田 寛郎, Hepburn: Onoda Hiroo, 19 March 1922 – 16 January 2014) was an Imperial Japanese Army intelligence officer who fought in World […]
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Dorothea Lange’s photos of the incarceration of Japanese Americans went largely unseen for decades. Subscribe and turn on notifications 🔔 so you don’t miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO US President Franklin D. Roosevelt passed Executive Order 9066 in February 1942 — two months after Japan’s bombing of the US Navy base […]
Dive into the most catastrophic political blunders that dramatically altered the course of world history. From disastrous military decisions to critical mistranslations, these moments reveal how a single mistake can reshape entire civilizations and global power dynamics. Our countdown explores shocking errors by world leaders including Hitler’s invasion of Russia, […]
Fanta can trace its origins back to dark times in world history – although they’ve inexplicably referred to these as “the good old times” in recent years, prompting backlash. “Fanta is an American-owned German brand of fruit-flavored carbonated soft drinks created by Coca-Cola Deutschland under the leadership of German businessman […]
The renegade WW2 pilots who tried to end war as we know it Watch the newest video from Big Think: https://bigth.ink/NewVideo Learn skills from the world’s top minds at Big Think Edge: https://bigth.ink/Edge ———————————————————————————- Much has been written about World War II in the seven and a half decades since […]
