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The forgotten Indian mutiny of 1946

Flying Dutchman - February 19, 2021

A short, but critical event that hastened the end of British colonial rule on the Indian subcontinent took place on February 18th, 1946: the...

Asian history

European barbarianism in China: ruining the Old Summer Palace

Flying Dutchman - October 18, 2020

The Second Opium War (October 8th, 1856-October 24th, 1860) was successfully fought by the British and the French Empire against Imperial China to compel...

Asian history

160 years ago, the road to Peking was opened up by force

Flying Dutchman - September 21, 2020

The Battle of Baliqiao between Anglo-French and Chinese forces on the morning of September 21st, 1860 was the culmination of the Second Opium War...

Asian history

1945: Indian freedom fighter Subhas Chandra Bose dies in Taiwan

Flying Dutchman - August 24, 2020

Asian history

The “Hun speech” as an early example of political propaganda

Flying Dutchman - July 28, 2020

The alleged “Hun speech“ by the German Kaiser is a sad example of how manipulated words lead to disastrous consequences.

Culture

Edgar Snow, pioneering apologist of the Mao cult

Flying Dutchman - July 17, 2020

Edgar Snow’s groundbreaking book Red Star over China from 1937 remains tarnished by its one-sidedness.

British history

Summer 1940: Germany occupies the British Channel Islands

Flying Dutchman - June 30, 2020

The Islands of Alderney, Guernsey, Herm, Lihou and Sark went through five years of German rule during World War II.

British history

Dunkirk 1940: disaster, myth and miracle

Flying Dutchman - May 26, 2020

80 years ago, the Battle of Dunkirk began in the surroundings of France’s northernmost city.

Asian history

In memoriam Lee Kuan Yew

Flying Dutchman - April 23, 2020

Lee Kuan Yew (1923-2015) was the father of modern Singapore. This is a translated and updated version of an obituary authored by me, published in the German weekly Preußische Allgemeine Zeitung on the 4th of April 2015.

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