Helen Cahill
By Helen Cahill
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Culture What Berlin Would Have Looked Like If Hitler Won
Adolf Hitler’s utopian plans to rebuild Berlin on a monumental scale were never realized, but the preparations that got under way involved demolitions and the use of slave labor – the victims mainly Jewish, as a new exhibition shows. Masterminded by the Nazis’ favorite architect, Albert Speer, Hitler’s grand vision of a new capital for…
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The Schmooze The Pain of Rootless Jews in Berlin
(Reuters) — Moshe Gershuni’s expressive, historically loaded art, which places symbols of the Holocaust in a religious setting and seeks to polarize opinion about current Israeli society, seems unlikely to reward the casual viewer. Titled “No Father No Mother,” the retrospective of paintings and ceramics since 1979 in the New National Gallery is the first…
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