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Keywords: Wwi

  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    German soldier's ugly art

    • John Bartlett
    • 10 July 2008
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    Nations need to believe in the nobility of their soldiers — anything less would be unbearable. There is an excess of ugliness in German artist Otto Dix's Der Krieg Cycle, perhaps the most powerful and unpleasant antiwar statement in modern art.

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Selective blindness about torture

    • Peter Hodge
    • 31 October 2007

    There is extensive evidence of US intelligence gathering techniques, much of it derived from declassified documents. It points to a clearly navigable path from the paranoia of the anti-communist post-WWII era to Abu Ghraib.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Terrible paradox

    • Adrian Caesar
    • 20 April 2006

    War games are not child's play.

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