But the sheer magnitude of the human tragedy of the second world war puts it in a class of its own, and its relative closeness to the present day makes claims on the collective memory that more remote horrors cannot.
But the administration's opponents point to changes in the laws of war under the Geneva Conventions since World War II, and they contend that because of those changes, the U.S. did not use military tribunals in the half century that followed, not even against guerilla fighters of the Vietcong.
Ms Riefenstahl, whose work included the Nazi propaganda films Triumph of the Will, about the 1934 Nazi Party Nuremberg Rally and Olympia, glorifying the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, has twice been cleared of complicity with the Nazis by war crimes courts following the collapse of the Nazi regime at the end of World War II.
One can understand the moral seriousness of the architects of Israel in the immediate aftermath of the second world war.
Both the Hoover and Roosevelt administrations took high-handed actions that pre-cipitated and then deepened and prolonged the economic crisis that was battering both the U.S. and the rest of the world and made possible the rise of Nazism and the advent of World War II.
The most dazzling example of the power of negative space comes from the efforts of analysts during World War II to reduce the enormous losses of aircraft and lives of flight crews that were routine during missions from British airfields over the German industrial heartland.
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The 1937 match proved to be the final Ryder Cup before the intervention of the Second World War, with the 1939 event, planned for Florida, cancelled.
" He asserts that "the context of the sentence as written was the late 1940s, in the immediate aftermath of World War II, not the entire Cold War, as strongly implied in letters and memorandums circulated in the Senate.
The U.S. government has acted in accordance with that view in connection with the extinction of the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1898, the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the end of World War I, and the dissolution of Yugoslavia in 1992.
Mr. Roberts, a historian, is author most recently of "The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War" (Harper, 2011).
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The tribunal was the first international body for the prosecution of war crimes since the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials held in the aftermath of World War II.
The public silence of the Vatican during the widespread atrocities of World War II is arguably the most controversial issue in the Catholic Church's wartime history.
Huntsville, in the north, boasts some of the nation's highest technology, rippling out from the space industry that began with the arrival after the second world war of the Nazis' rocket-man, Wernher von Braun.
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So during the earlier months of the Syria war, the world waited for her to back her words with actions.
My God, there have been more tears shed on reality TV than by all the war-widows of the world.
At the same time, we may find the neoclassical design of the National World War II Memorial by the Austrian-born Friedrich St.
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The big shift occurred after the carnage of the first world war and the Spanish flu that followed.
He says that the UK "is in the economic equivalent of war today" - and therefore the spirit of the World War II must be recreated in Whitehall.
Yesterday was the 90th anniversary of the end of World War I and the beginning of our own time.
The death of John's father when the boy was 12 and the advent of World War II wiped out the family fortune.
Recently, the prime minister has addressed one of the big frozen questions of central Europe: the expulsion after the second world war of 3m-plus Germans and Hungarians from the former Czechoslovakia.
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Both during the post-World War I breakup of the Ottoman Empire and with the breakup of the British and French empires after World War II, British and French imperial authorities colluded with Arab imperialists to guarantee the latter's nearly uninhibited control over the Middle East.
Such deaths happen in every instance of urban warfare, from the post-Normandy fighting in the villages of France in World War II to the more recent NATO bombing of Serbia.
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The United States has officially expressed its view that upon the extinction of a State, its bilateral political treaties automatically lapse, and has acted in accordance with that view in connection with the extinction of the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1898, the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the end of World War I, and the dissolution of Yugoslavia in 1992.
Not since the end of the Cold War has the world seen such a degree of transformation in global affairs.
W. Brands, a prolific author and teacher at the University of Texas, is a different sort of history: a clear, broad summary of events at home and abroad from the end of the second world war to the election of Barack Obama.
The debate underscores not only the complexities of Holocaust history but also the difficulty countries can face reconciling the heroic deeds of an individual during World War II with the record of a nation as a whole.
Ms Moggach's grandmother, who lost her husband, her only brother and 11 cousins in the slaughtering fields of the first world war, was the inspiration for this cleverly written tale of domestic intrigue in the sooty streets of Southwark, a working-class district of London just south of the Thames, as the war draws to its close.
The results are extraordinary, beginning with the gold medal counts the Soviets achieved back in the era of the Cold War, and spreading around the world in subsequent years.
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