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Feature Image; Fifth Marine Division Command Post, Iwo Jima, 1945. “Fifth Marine Division Command Post, Iwo Jima, 1945” by Archives Branch, USMC History Division is licensed under CC BY 2.0. 80th Anniversary: Battle of Iwo Jima (Feb. 19-Mar. 26, 1945): American victory in the Pacific Theater which cost dearly and whose heroism was captured in photographs and color films, rallied a war-weary homefront to renewed resolve to finish the job in the last months of World War II. | CORRIDORS: The Blog.
GERMANY. Long Live Freedom! HANS SCHOLL AND SOPHIE SCHOLL and The White Rose in Germany (1942-1943).
FEATURE image: Hans and Sophie Scholl, painting –“Hans and Sophie Scholl, painting” by Ralf van Bühren is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 By John P. Walsh On February 18, 1943, following the illegal distribution of anti-Nazi leaflets by the White Rose at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München—the leaflets instructing students and all others to actively resist the 10-year-old Nazi regime—three young German…
LOW COUNTRIES. Dachau Prisoner and Martyr: Blessed TITUS BRANDSMA, O. Carm., Catholic scholar and journalist.
FEATURE image: Titus Brandsma, a Dutch educator, journalist and priest, had been appointed by the Catholic Bishops in Holland as their chief spokesman to defend the freedom of Catholic education and the press. The 60-year-old Carmelite was arrested in Holland by the Nazis in early 1942 and killed by lethal injection (carbolic acid) in Dachau…
GERMANY. Prison Meditations of German Pastor and Nazi Resister ALFRED DELP, S.J. (1907-1945) who was executed by the Nazis in Berlin’s Tegel Prison at the end of World War II.
FEATURE image: Alfred Delp, S.J, Alfred Delp, S.J. sailing. FIRST SUNDAY IN ADVENT. During World War II in Germany, Alfred Delp, S.J. (September 15, 1907 – executed, Berlin, February 2, 1945) was a member of the Kreisauer Kreis (The Kreisau Circle) composed of German men and women from a variety of backgrounds who opposed Adolf…
AUSTRIA. BL. FRANZ JÄGERSTÄTTER (1907-1943): Austrian Farmer, Husband and Father, Conscientious Objector in World War II, and Martyr.
FEATURE image: Detail of Franz Jägerstätter on a motorbike in St. Radegund, Austria, in 1940. By John P. Walsh October 26, 2017/updated July 15, 2021. In his 17-minute speech at the TED conference in April 2017, Pope Francis talked about the importance of human interdependence, equality, and inclusion. Perhaps surprisingly, the pope stressed the power…
FRANCE. French Cartoonist fêted, later revealed as Nazi collaborator during World War II: CHAVAL (1915-1968) and the purpose of art history and today’s art exhibitions.
FEATURE image: Chaval’s cartoons, mainly wordless, are often derisive, ironic and filled with dark humor. In the 1950s Chaval was mentioned in American publications with cartoonists such as James Thurber, Charles Addams and William Steig. By John P. Walsh The 53-year-old French cartoonist’s suicide in Paris in winter 1968 served as a tragic end to a…
