Eventful week in history.

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rubato
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Eventful week in history.

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1.
FDR dies. One of the three most important presidents and the one who saved the world both for democracy and for capitalism.

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/fdrdeath.htm


2.
Lincoln is assassinated. One of the other two. What does it mean to give everything to save the country and in the end be so hated that you are murdered for it by the 19th century version of a "states rights" wacko?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassinat ... am_Lincoln

3.
The liberation of Buchenwald. You just have to read it. How can we understand ourselves as a species who are decent and clean again after this?

http://www.bradford-delong.com/2015/04/ ... .html#more

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