11/11 ended the violence between armies on the western front - but not in the east and south. Russia would be ripped apart by Civil War, Greece battled post-Ottoman Turkey, Poland fought Russia. Internal violence bloodied Germany, Italy, Hungary, and ... be it not forgot, the US
An anarchist terrorist wave killed dozens of Americans. A bomb intended for Attorney General Mitchell Palmer rattled windows across the street at the home of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. At the same time ...
.... in Chicago, Detroit, and other cities - most horrifically Tulsa, Oklahoma - white Americans launched what can only be described as pogroms against black neighborhoods, determined to burn out the economic advantages African Americans had gained during the wartime boom
The anti-black pogroms in US cities between 1919-21 bear an ugly resemblance to the attacks of Freikorps units on Poles and others in eastern Germany and the new Baltic republics
The anti-black pogroms in US cities bear an ugly family likeness to the terroristic violence launched by Freikorps units against Poles and Balts in the lands east of the Elbe to hold/claim them for Germany
At a dinner last night, a guest marveled: why the fuss over this centenary? It's all "ancient history." As Faulkner said, "The past isn't dead. It isn't even past."
