Blogs: Anti Tobacco Movement In Nazi Germany

After German doctors became the first to identify the link between smoking and lung cancer, Nazi Germany initiated a strong anti-tobacco movement and led the first public anti-smoking campaign in modern history. Hitler viewed smoking as ...

I used to think that knowledge of humanity was cumulative, that we could learn from the examples throughout history and say, no, Nazi Germany could never happen now, Hiroshima and Nagasaki were just a one-off, we'll never make those mistakes again. ... Reminds me of that original Star Trek episode “The Changeling” when they slap the anti-gravs onto Nomad the robot. “If you are the creator then you are perfect, but if you made a mistake then you cannot be the creator”. ...

Bascombe follows the likes of UKi Goñi in showing the growing cold war disinterest outside Israel for following up Nazi criminals like Eichmann and the role played by the Catholic Church as well as Argentina's Perón in offering them an escape route and refuge. This story of how Eichmann .... Following a veteran of the US landings in Marseilles he and the veteran retrace the route taken by a US anti tank panther company through France into Germany and finally into Austria. ...