Gonna visit the city in the next days and we're really interested in the political subculture in Bilbao. What are recommendations for places that reflect the political past and present of the city?
For reasons related to remembrance culture, my grandfather kept some historical documents (letters, postcards, etc.) from the Nazi era. He always believed that these relics should provide future generations with a “firsthand” account of the horrors of Hitler’s fascism, as a warning that something like this must never happen again. Since I myself work in the fields of political education and remembrance culture, he gave me a small pamphlet from this collection a few days ago, which is the reason I’m posting here.
It is a booklet titled “Adolf Hitler and the Children.” The booklet is written in Ukrainian using the Cyrillic alphabet and contains numerous illustrations featuring Hitler and children. I've attached four photos to similar pospts in other threads, but this one doesnt allow photos.
According to my own research, the pamphlet was published in the fall of 1941. It was distributed in Ukraine during the war against the Soviet Union and was intended to portray the Nazis as “liberators from Bolshevism.” The content (pictures of Hitler with children) appears to have also been published in Russian and Estonian—though with different text—and I have found almost nothing online regarding a Ukrainian edition. It is not documented anywhere online, and I have not found any archival records or similar sources.
I contacted the German Federal Archives to ask if they were familiar with the pamphlet. They were not, so the pamphlet is an absolute rarity—at least from the perspective of German archives and libraries. I don't know how well the Ukrainian archival collections have been digitized. Not only is it not documented online, but it has not been found anywhere else in Germany so far.
My question now is: Can anyone here say anything about the pamphlet—or know someone who can?
For reasons related to remembrance culture, my grandfather kept some historical documents (letters, postcards, etc.) from the Nazi era. He always believed that these relics should provide future generations with a “firsthand” account of the horrors of Hitler’s fascism, as a warning that something like this must never happen again. Since I myself work in the fields of political education and remembrance culture, he gave me a small pamphlet from this collection a few days ago, which is the reason I’m posting here.
It is a booklet titled “Adolf Hitler and the Children.” The booklet is written in Ukrainian using the Cyrillic alphabet and contains numerous illustrations featuring Hitler and children. I’m attaching four photos: one of the cover, the title, the first page of the booklet, and the English translation of that first page.
According to my own research, the pamphlet was published in the fall of 1941. It was distributed in Ukraine during the war against the Soviet Union and was intended to portray the Nazis as “liberators from Bolshevism.” The content (pictures of Hitler with children) appears to have also been published in Russian and Estonian—though with different text—and I have found almost nothing online regarding a Ukrainian edition. It is not documented anywhere online, and I have not found any archival records or similar sources.
I contacted the German Federal Archives to ask if they were familiar with the pamphlet. They were not, so the pamphlet is an absolute rarity—at least from the perspective of German archives and libraries. I don't know how well the Ukrainian archival collections have been digitized. Not only is it not documented online, but it has not been found anywhere else in Germany so far.
My question now is: Can anyone here say anything about the pamphlet—or know someone who can?
Was really impressive to see a train station being out of function because of geopolitics following the russian invasion of Ukraine.
When i was in Tiraspol about 2 months ago, we met an Australian guy in front of the Train Station where the Marshrutkas depart. He told us that he entered the PMR after visiting Ukraine and also traveling to heavily war-affected cities like Charkiw where he almost got drone-striked. After crossing the Ukraine-PMR-Border he stayed in Tiraspol for 4 days and was on his way westwards towards Chisinau when we met. Me and my friend really wondered about this strange encounter not only because he was completely physically stacked and looked like a somewhat intelligence guy with short haircut, big sunglasses and his equipment. But we wondered: Was his story true? Is it really possible to enter the PMR from Ukraine and then travelling westwards these days? Are there PMR-border guards or moldovan on the ukraine border? Do you also get this migration card there which was given to us at the Bender check point? How does Moldova treat people who want to leave the country without having an entry stamp, because i guess the PMR border guards at the ukraine border dont have them? Isnt this some sort of illegal entry? Do Ukraine border guards even let you cross into the PMR?
Completely mysterious topic, especially regarding the war in Ukraine making any visit there dangerous and PMRs pro-russia affiliation. But we didnt had any reason to not believe his story, on the other side there are almost zero reports or blogposts or vlogs from westerners doing this sort of trip.
The German Wikipedia article about the Khmer Rouge states that
"Kämpfer und Kader der ehemaligen Kommunistischen Partei sind nach Angaben von Beobachtern immer noch im Untergrund von Kambodscha aktiv, stellen aber für den bestehenden Staat keine unmittelbare Gefahr mehr dar."
which translates to
"According to observers, fighters and cadres of the former Communist Party are still active in Cambodia’s underground, but no longer pose an immediate threat to the current government."
Is this true - are there still active relics of the Khmer Rouge existing in Cambodia? The German Wiki article doesnt state a source tho, but i am curious what people here on this subreddit say.
Coordinates: 15.727309,39.943933
Those coordinates refer to is the infamous Nocra Concentration Camp in the Dahlak Archipelago, Eritrea. Once created by the Italian colonial regime and later revived by the Italian fascists, it's appears to be still in operation by the current independent Eritrean government. This place has some of the harshest climate conditions on earth and has a devastating history of pure terror, one can read it up at Wikipedia.
I'm wondering what is going on at this site in 2026. Is it still in action? The last reports I found online are from 2017 where there was stated that some Christian women were kept as prisoners there. Does anyone have informations?