The Holocaust and the Politics of Memory

 

It’s been nearly 80 years since the end of World War II. Johanna Hoes examines the fragility of historical memory and a rise in Holocaust revisionism in Europe.

Politicians have long had a tendency to frame the past in a way that suits their political agenda in the present and the Holocaust is no different.

In this special episode of The Listening Post, Johanna Hoes reports on historical revisionism in Poland; the governing right-wing Law and Justice party’s attempts to portray all Polish people as heroes or victims while concealing an uncomfortable truth: that some Poles collaborated with the Nazis and were complicit in crimes against Jews.

Japan That Will Blow Your Mind. The Weirdest Modern Country

This is Japan - the weirdest modern country in the world. It is a place where unimaginable technologies and cultural heritage are intertwined. I'm going to show you in my travel vlog the life of the people in Japan and many incredibly unusual things that any foreign tourist can`t even imagine. For instance, the capsule hotel, the pet hotel and the long queues for Japanese restaurants. And you won't believe it... but they queue up to eat colorful sandwiches! Sightseeing in Japan is something very inspiring and beautiful or as the Japanese say...kawaii! In my video I will show you the capital of Japan – Tokyo. You will see it from the sky and I will give you the little tour of the capital city with tons of facts and curiosities of this amazing Asian country. So let's go on a trip to Japan! Enjoy!

Saving the 'memory of mankind' in a mountain of Austrian salt

Austrian Martin Kunze has a mission: to create a time capsule of humankind. One reason for this ambitious project is that digital records do not last forever – and Kunze believes certain memories should be preserved.

I Found Out China's Dirty Secret

 

Why Emperor Taizong Was China's Greatest Leader

Emperor Taizong is revered today as a wise ruler who led China into a golden age. His reign saw the invention of paper, book printing, gunpowder and the compass, hundreds of years earlier than in Europe.

How Japan Became a Great Power in Only 40 Years (1865 - 1905) // Japanese History Documentary

 

How Do the Japanese Teach About WWII?

 

Is Peace Finally Coming to Afghanistan? | History of Afghanistan 1979-2021

 

The Animated History of China | Part 1

 

The Animated History of Japan

 

The Animated History of Korea

 

Japan and the West: The First 500 Years // Japanese History Documentary (1298 - 1854)

 

How Chinese & Japanese Cultures Influenced Each Other Through History

 

How Did Communism Start In China? | The War That Changed The World | Timeline

 

The series follows the evolution of Mao Zedong’s rise to power, and in turn, how he created a new China. In 1972, Chairman Mao Zedong was not entirely joking when he asked Tanaka Kakuei, the visiting Japanese Prime Minister, whether he should thank him for the invasion – because it had changed the destiny of China.

How The Founding Fathers Would See America Today

 

In this video, America's founding fathers are transported to our modern world, to judge what the country has become, and compare their world to ours.

History of Halloween - Documentary

 

In this documentary, we explore the roots of Halloween. The legends, myths, culture behind it, and more.

Trump's Mt. Rushmore 4th of July speech: Protesters want to 'wipe out our history'

US President Donald Trump has kicked off Independence Day celebrations at an event in South Dakota. Fireworks lit up the sky over the Mount Rushmore monument which, in a controversial move, Trump chose as the venue for this year's festivities. In a divisive speech, he criticized recent protests against racial injustice as "a merciless campaign to wipe out our history."

How Southern socialites rewrote Civil War history

The United Daughters of the Confederacy was a significant leader of the “Lost Cause,” an intellectual movement that revised history to look more favorably on the South after the American Civil War. They were women from elite antebellum families that used their social and political clout to fundraise and pressure local governments to erect monuments that memorialized Confederate heroes. They also formed textbook review committees that monitored what Southern schoolchildren learned about the war. Their influential work with children created a lasting memory of the Confederate cause, and those generations grew up to be the segregationists of the Jim Crow Era in the South.

Monuments of history or bigotry? The politics of statues

Should historic statues remain standing even if they celebrate racism? Plus, the man behind Rwanda's hate media.

The police killing of George Floyd, a Black American, and the weeks of protests that followed in the United States have sent ripples across the Atlantic. The defining image of the demonstrations in the UK has been the toppling of a statue in the port city of Bristol; a monument to Edward Colston, a slave trader whose wealth helped build the city. Colston's fall has offended those who say you cannot erase the past and that those who profited from slavery should not be judged by today's moral standards. Tell that to the thousands of British demonstrators, not just people of colour, who are out to tell the real story about Britain's role in the formation of the slave trade - the legacy of which spans the globe.

A look at the history of the statues being attacked by protesters worldwide