Living Through History

Almost a quarter of a century after the first intervention, the Marines return to the Lebanese beaches, to Tripoli and above all to Beirut, first to facilitate the exit of the PLO fighters and then to try to reduce friction between the many souls of the civil war Lebanese. Peacekeeping, however, is a dangerous profession, especially if on the other side you have to deal with a new militarized real...

A paradise on earth, marvelous beaches, breathtaking landscapes, the castles of the Crusaders, multicultural traditions, and banking wealth likened to the "Switzerland of the Middle East." Lebanon in the early 1970s truly had everything to fulfill anyone's dreams, even those of a bankrupt like Felice Riva, who, after squandering the assets of the Vallesusa textile group, chose to enjoy golden hidi...

On January 31, 1968 according to the lunar calendar, the Year of the Monkey begins. And perfectly embodying the cunning and genius attributed in the Far East to this symbolic animal, General Võ Nguyên Giáp prepared a terrible surprise for the American, Australian and South Vietnamese soldiers: instead of the usual truce for the Tet anniversary, little after midnight a massive offensive starts whic...

The Munich Massacre was a terrorist event that occurred during the 1972 Summer Olympics, in Munich, West Germany. A commando from the Palestinian socialist terrorist organization Black September broke into the accommodation intended for Israeli athletes in the Olympic village, immediately killing two athletes who had attempted to resist and taking nine other members of Israel's Olympic team hostag...

Als brillanter Architekt, Schüler großer Designer, zunächst unpolitisch, wurde Albert Speer in den 1930er Jahren Mitglied des engsten Kreises Hitlers. Zunächst als Designer der Bühnenbilder für die Ozeanparaden, dann als Renovierer großer öffentlicher Gebäude wurde Speer mit der Aufgabe betraut, Berlin als künftige Welthauptstadt des Nationalsozialismus wieder aufzubauen und umzugestalten und dann...

A brilliant architect, student of great designers, initially apolitical, Albert Speer became a member of Hitler's inner circle in the 1930s. Initially as a designer of the sets for the ocean parades, then as a renovator of large public buildings, Speer was entrusted with the role of reconstructing and remodeling Berlin as the future world capital of Nazism and then of leading the German industrial...

Living Through History,where we embark on a captivating journey through the events, people, and stories that have shaped the world in the 20th and 21st centuries. Join us as we unravel the intricate tapestry of modern history, exploring pivotal moments, cultural shifts, political revolutions, and technological breakthroughs that have defined our contemporary world. With expert interviews, firsthan...

Living Through History,where we embark on a captivating journey through the events, people, and stories that have shaped the world in the 20th and 21st centuries. Join us as we unravel the intricate tapestry of modern history, exploring pivotal moments, cultural shifts, political revolutions, and technological breakthroughs that have defined our contemporary world. With expert interviews, firsthan...

Mercenaries, fortune soldiers, fighters without a flag—there are different ways to define those who fight for compensation. After the end of the Second World War, the decolonization of Africa increasingly witnesses conflicts, uprisings, and coups. In newly independent Belgian Congo, two men, two mercenaries, Bob Denard and Jacques Schramme, meet to decide whether and how to rebel against the new p...

A climate of violence, ambushes, and nighttime killings. And a final proclamation that leaves no room for interpretation but decrees only open conflict. On the morning of July 17, 1936, a plane lands in Melilla, on board is a high-ranking Spanish army officer arriving from the Canary Islands. His task is to address the troops that have just risen and plan the initial moves to overthrow the legitim...

In the common understanding, the term "ghost town" refers to abandoned and forgotten urban settlements. These are communities created by humans for specific purposes, often economic, and left by the communities that once inhabited them once their raison d'être was exhausted. Along the old Gold Rush trail in the Yukon or in mining regions, there are numerous cases of ghost towns that now lie in dus...

79 years have passed since the entry of Red Army soldiers into Auschwitz. Since then, the world's admonition has been unanimous: "never again!". However, over the years, there have been phenomena of minimization, denial, and historical manipulation. In recent times, there have even been attempts to label health-related regulatory measures or wartime situations as an "holocaust." In this video, we...

Friends, a new country will be born in a matter of days. It will be a Lebanon that is strong, secure, and independent. I will be the one to ensure all these promises. As the new president, I assure you that...". The strong voice of the speaker on the stage is overshadowed by a deafening explosion that shakes the building, debris falling from the ceiling, a cloud of dust invading the room, and the...

In this episode, we take you to the heart of Gunung Padang to unveil the story of the world's oldest pyramid and the discovery that is revolutionizing everything we thought we knew about the origins of our history. This extraordinary finding has inevitably sparked a lively debate in the scientific community, with some embracing it enthusiastically, free from prejudices, and others observing it wit...

Close to the downtrodden, a life dedicated to those who suffer, the Nobel Peace Prize, international recognition, and canonization a few years after her death. However, in the life of Mother Teresa of Calcutta, many questions still linger today, awaiting answers: why was her clinic in Calcutta actually a hospice for the dying, lacking effective care and professional medical staff? What mystical an...

From a luxury venue to a golden exile for heads of state, and eventually, the headquarters of a colonial administration. However, in the nearly century-long history of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, what stands out most is the attack on the morning of July 22, 1946, when a powerful explosive charge shattered an entire wing, killing 91 people. The explosive device, placed in the basement, was t...

On July 7, 1980, a date that would go down in history as the Day of the Long Knives, soldiers of the Kataeb, led by Bashir Gemayel, had waited for Dany Chamoun, son of Camille and absolute commander of the Tigers, to leave the yacht club in Safra, the Tigers' base. They then launched an attack on the facility where the leaders of the rival militia were relaxing. In a morning of rare violence, 83 o...

At the origins of Benjamin Netanyahu's political and personal parable there is a historical fact that hit his family hard. At the beginning of the summer of 1976, the hijacking of an Air France flight in Entebbe ended with the spectacular liberation of the hostages at the cost of the death of a very special member of the Israeli commando. That Ugandan night had repercussions both on African histor...

The siege of Tel al-Zaatar , alternatively known as the massacre of Tel al-Zaatar , was an armed siege of Tel al-Zaatar (meaning Hill of Thyme in Arabic), a fortified, UNRWA -administered refugee camp housing Palestinian refugees in northeastern Beirut , that ended on August 12, 1976 with the massacre of at least 1,500 people. ] The siege began in January of 1976 with an attack by Christian Lebane...

A pontificate lasting 27 years, a period from 1978 to 2005 full of scandals and mysteries that fully involved the Vatican. The Banco Ambrosiano scandal, with the dangerous relationships between Marcinkus' IOR and Calvi's dark finance, the Orlandi case, the murder of Oscar Romero, the Salvadoran archbishop murdered during a function, the meeting with Augusto Pinochet in Chile, the support for the c...

A pontificate lasting 27 years, a period from 1978 to 2005 full of scandals and mysteries that fully involved the Vatican. The Banco Ambrosiano scandal, with the dangerous relationships between Marcinkus' IOR and Calvi's dark finance, the Orlandi case, the murder of Oscar Romero, the Salvadoran archbishop murdered during a function, the meeting with Augusto Pinochet in Chile, the support for the c...

Abraham "Avi" Loeb is a theoretical physicist who works on astrophysics and cosmology. Loeb is the Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University. He is the author of the best-selling book, “Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth." In this podcast Mr. Loeb explains why the interstellar object known as Oumuamua could be evidence of alien technology and why...

TWO PEOPLES, WHICH LAND? - There hasn't always been only Palestine. If in the past there have been abortive attempts at Jewish immigration in Uganda and Madagascar, the Palestinians have twice attempted to take control of other states, namely Jordan and Lebanon. All failed experiments, often with catastrophic consequences, reiterating the basic concept: the only way is through peaceful sharing. Li...

THE SIX DAYS: In June 1967, the Israeli General Staff orders a preemptive lightning war as a response to the blockade of the Straits of Tiran. At the peak of a long-standing standoff between the Arab powers and the Jewish state, the IDF's strategy drastically alters the political and military geography of the region. The Six-Day War (known in Arabic as "al Naksa," meaning "the defeat") initiates a...

Five battleships, one target ship, and two destroyers sunk; three more battleships and three heavily damaged cruisers. Almost a complete strategic victory. This is not the end of a game of Battleship, the classic board game that has entertained generations of kids and adults with pen and paper during boring hours. Instead, it's the terrible tally of the damage in one of the major Pacific harbors j...