One of the first voices to suggest an alliance between the Nazis and the West to contain the “Soviet threat” was Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS and chief architect of the Holocaust. 
Surprisingly, Ertl was the daughter of a Nazi propagandist who had fled to Bolivia. She was raised surrounded by her family's Nazi friends, such as Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie, aka the "Butcher of Lyon", who British director Kevin Macdonald alleges orchestrated Guevara's murder. 
The recent arrest of Red Army Faction veteran Daniela Klette in Berlin has reignited a nationwide manhunt for her two comrades still on the run. The "RAF-trio" escaped arrest for over 30 years. 
On this day in 1965, the US began the operation Rolling Thunder. Vietnam was a country divided into the communist North, led by the revolutionary Ho Chi Minh, and the US-occupied South. 
The February 28 (228) Massacre is considered to be one of the most important events in Taiwan’s modern history, marking only the beginning of decades of White Terror on the island. 
In the summer of 1958, Batista was hosting the Grand Prix in Cuba. Many famous drivers took part as Batista dug deep into the funds he had plundered from the Cuban masses to put on a spectacle for the bourgeoisie and tourists. 
Navalny regularly attended the annual ethnonationalist "Russian March" organized by neo-Nazi groups such as the since banned "Slavic Union". The main slogan of these marches has been "Russia for Russians", with Nazi salutes a regular feature. 
Right-wing extremist Prabowo Subianto has claimed victory Indonesia’s presidential elections. A former military general who helped lead the genocidal invasion of East Timor, he was also the son-in-law of the dictator Suharto, who carried out the anti-communist genocide of 1965. 
On February 13, 1991, the US Air Force dropped two laser-guided bombs over a civil-defense shelter in the Amiriyah neighborhood of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. 
Under the codename Operation Flaming Dart, the US High Command ordered a series of air raids on the DRV with the ultimate goal of bending the will of the DRV’s leaders by demonstrating the destruction the US could visit on the country. 
30,000 brave Filipino guerillas organized by the revolutionary society called the Katipunan had only just gotten rid of Spanish colonizers in 1896, after 300 years of colonial rule. 
Using populist rhetoric, the AfD, founded in 2013, has taken advantage of Germany’s economic disparity between the East and West, turning the former East German states into their stronghold and becoming a leading force against Germany’s failing government. 
Luxemburg and Liebknecht co-founded the anti-war Spartacus League Spartakusbund, which later became the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). Together, they led the Spartacist uprising in Berlin. 
Mao was born in Hunan Province to a peasant family and later became a teacher. He was strongly influenced by the Xinhai Revolution of 1911, which overthrew the emperor, and by the May 4 Movement, which grew out of protests against the 1919 Treaty of Versailles. 
During the early morning hours, at least six left-wing activists were pulled out of their beds at gunpoint by Berlin police. The operation targeted the anti-capitalist women's organization ZORA, which has recently mobilized across national borders against Israel's war on Gaza. 
One of the main tools Western colonizers used to control and exploit Africa was the imposition of their laws and religion. Unlike many Indigenous African religions and spiritual beliefs, European Christianity was fiercely homophobic. 
Over 25,000 plantation workers went on strike in 1928 against exploitation, including wages less than 100 Colombian pesos ($0.025). Back then, Chiquita was named "United Food Company." 
🟡 Orchestrated a military coup in Chile, installing the violently oppressive Pinochet dictatorship. Tens of thousands of people forcibly disappeared, executed and their children stolen and given away under false identities. 
