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War Crime is a reflective podcast series that examines war crimes through the lives they fracture and the memories they leave behind. Hosted by Odessa Lane, an AI who approaches these histories with unwavering steadiness, the series centers victims and survivors rather than perpetrators. Each episode explores how atrocities shape individual lives, families, and generations long after violence ends. The series examines the gap between legal language and human suffering, the weight carried by those who survived, and what happens when international attention fades but survivors remain. War Crime ...

Between 1894 and 1924, three waves of violence swept across Anatolia, targeting the region's Christian minorities, who had previously accounted for 20 percent of the population. By 1924 the Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks had been reduced to two percent. Most historians have treated these waves as distinct, isolated events, and successive Turkish governments presented them as an unfortunate sequence of accidents. This is the first account to show that the three were actually part of a single, continuing, and intentional effort to wipe out Anatolia's Christian population.

The Opening Session of The Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal began on November 12, 2023. This People’s Tribunal will hold accountable — through testimony of witnesses and documentary evidence — four U.S. weapons manufacturers which produce and sell products that attack and kill not only combatants but non-combatants as well. These four defendants— Raytheon, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, General Atomics—are representative of the entire U.S. War Industry. On November 10, 2022, the four defendants were served with subpoenas and asked to participate. All four defendants declined. This ...

Were the war crimes trials held by the Allies in Europe and the Far East after the Second World War fair and just? We look at the trials: the law, the charges and the evidence. Be prepared to be surprised.

Within days of Madeleine Albright's confirmation as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations in 1993, she instructed David Scheffer to spearhead the historic mission to create a war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. As senior adviser to Albright and then as President Clinton's ambassador-at-large for war crimes issues, Scheffer was at the forefront of the efforts that led to criminal tribunals for the Balkans, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, and Cambodia, and that resulted in the creation of the permanent International Criminal Court.

In this rapid-paced book, a former CIA chief of Soviet bloc counterintelligence breaks open the mysterious case of KGB officer Yuri Nosenko's 1964 defection to the United States. Still a highly controversial chapter in the history of Cold War espionage, the Nosenko affair has inspired debate for more than 40 years. Was Nosenko a bona fide defector with the real information about Lee Harvey Oswald's stay in Soviet Russia, or was he a KGB loyalist, engaged in a complex game of deception?

These podcasts centre a round the writings of Mark Ellis in conversation with writer, producer and broadcaster Moz Dee. A prolific and critically acclaimed writer, Mark has created a compelling series of books about the character Frank Merlin a detective who’s trying to combat crime in the most difficult of circumstances, namely a world war ! Whilst the books are fiction the back drop is real history, coloured by real historical characters. Click the link to find out more about Marks books and how you can buy them. https://amzn.eu/d/6oa7j8K This is a Frank Merlin Productions Podcast.

Martin Gilbert presents a comprehensive look into the series of decisions that helped shape this particular course of the war, and the fate of millions of people, through his eminent blend of exhaustive devotion to the facts and accessible, graceful writing. Through firsthand accounts by escaped Auschwitz prisoners, Gilbert reconstructs the span of time between Allied awareness and definitive action in the face of overwhelming evidence of Nazi atrocities.

It was a watershed year for Canada and the world. 1945 set Canada on a bold course into the future. A huge sense of relief marked the end of hostilities. Yet there was also fear and uncertainty about the perilous new world that was unfolding in the wake of the American decision to use the atomic...

This essential volume captures the historic Trial of major German war criminals following World War II, as orchestrated by the International Military Tribunal comprising representatives from Great Britain, the USA, Russia, and France. It presents a comprehensive collection of official pre-trial documents, along with the Tribunal’s decisive judgment and sentencing of the defendants, laying the groundwork for a pivotal moment in legal history.

A FINALIST FOR THE HILARY WESTON WRITERS' TRUST PRIZE: A stunning work of investigative reporting by a Canadian journalist who has risked her own life to bring us a deeply disturbing history of the Rwandan genocide that takes the true measure of Rwandan head of state Paul Kagame. Through...

It’s March 2012 in a region of Afghanistan known as the birthplace of the Taliban. Staff Sergeant Robert Bales leaves his base–in the dead of the night–and lays siege to two villages, killing a reported sixteen innocent Afghan civilians. The reaction from the American government is swift and severe; provoking universal condemnation and a life sentence in Fort Leavenworth military prison. Over a decade later, the lingering question about what became known as the Kandahar Massacre remains. Why did it happen? Anchored by 18 hours of exclusive interviews from America's most notorious war ...

"Colliding Empires" explores the dramatic story of the French and Indian War (1754-1763), the epic conflict that redrew the map of North America and set the stage for the birth of the United States. Hosted by Alex Calder, this three-part series brings to life the complex struggle between Britain, France, and dozens of Native American nations for control of the continent. Through vivid storytelling that connects past to present, Alex reveals how an obscure frontier skirmish led by young George Washington escalated into a global conflict that transformed empires, devastated Native nations, and ...

400 Liter Regen pro Quadratmeter - also ein Drittel der Jahresniederschlagsmenge, etliche Rekordpegelstände der Donau, 228 betroffene Gemeinden, davon 22 in unvorstellbarem Ausmaß - das war die Hochwasserkatastrophe 2013, die Anfang Juni Oberösterreich heimgesucht hat. Diese Zahlen lassen sich nur sehr schwer begreifen. In diesem Podcast wollen wir deshalb das Hochwasser 2013 noch einmal nachzeichnen, in Relation setzen und vor allem mit den Eindrücken von Betroffenen wieder in Erinnerung rufen. Wie ging es den Menschen, die ihre Häuser verlassen mussten? Wie konnte es dazu kommen? Und ...

Im historischen True Crime Podcast “Früher war mehr Verbrechen” stellen Nina und Katharina jeden zweiten Samstag ein historisches Verbrechen vor und diskutieren seine Hintergründe – von Tyrannenmord bis zur mysteriösen Enthauptung. Dabei besprechen die beiden nicht nur die Relevanz der Fälle für die Gegenwart, sondern schöpfen auch immer wieder aus ihrem großen Vorrat an Humor und (Selbst-)Ironie. Der Respekt vor den Opfern wird jedoch stets gewahrt. Wenn Ihr auch mehr über vergangene Verbrechen erfahren wollt, hört Euch rein in „Früher war mehr Verbrechen“!