NAZIS & FASCISTS

MIKE WHITNEY—“NATO is expected to ask its members to raise its ammunition stockpiles which have been badly depleted by the war in Ukraine… the pace of deliveries to Ukraine, where Kyiv’s troops are firing up to 10,000 artillery shells daily, has drained Western inventories and exposed holes in the efficiency, speed and manpower of supply chains. “If Europe were to fight Russia, some countries would run out of ammunition in days,” a European diplomat told Reuters… the stockpiles are running even lower due to the conflict in Ukraine…. The war also cast a spotlight on the lack of industrial capacity necessary to ramp up production quickly.

JOVAR FELDMANN—It is important to note that these types of experiments were not unique to Dachau but were carried out at several other concentration camps during the war as well. The inhumane treatment of prisoners, including medical experimentation, was a hallmark of the Nazi regime and a clear violation of international laws and principles of medical ethics.

NORA HOPPE—Shostakovich’s Seventh Symphony was written in 1941, primarily during the Siege of Leningrad by the Nazi forces. When it had its premiere in the war-torn city on 9th August 1942 – performed by the emaciated, surviving musicians of the Leningrad Radio Orchestra that was supplemented with military performers, before a starving but euphoric audience – it was hailed as a universal beacon of resistance to barbarism. The conductor, Karl Eliasberg, concluded that “in that moment, we triumphed over the soulless Nazi war machine”.