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But the German army wreaked brutal reprisals on the civilians.
Ruling from Palermo, Barbarossa’s highly cultured but brutal grandson Frederick II (1194–1250) was a prototype for the future Renaissance prince.
In May 1864, he was treating the wounded from the Battle of the Wilderness, part of the brutal and grueling campaign that would take so many lives in the peninsula of Virginia.
The NYT depicts the military struggle as more one-sided, conducted by "brutal, rag-tag militias that oppose independence."
Finkelstein acknowledges the Nazi state was a brutal dictatorship, but he glosses over its disturbingly popular character.