Terrence Petty is the author of Nazis At The Watercooler: War Criminals In Postwar German Government Agencies and Enemy Of The People: The Munich Post and the Journalists Who Opposed Hitler.
Terrence Petty
By Terrence Petty
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Culture ‘I’m fragmented, and a surviving remnant’: The story of Westerbork prisoner 8331
Jack Boas was devastated by the Holocaust, even if he can't remember any of it
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Opinion Why the ‘No Kings’ marches reminded me of Germany in 1933
Americans should heed what happened in Germany before the Weimar Republic’s final parliamentary election
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Opinion What we get wrong about how Germany has reckoned with its Nazi past
In Germany's eagerness to whitewash the crimes of the WWII era, there are sobering lessons for a post-Trump America
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Opinion During WWII, a heroic Jewish lawyer warned against the dangers of a dual state — is it coming true in Trump’s America?
Ernst Fraenkel would have recognized the way our legal system is splintering
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Opinion Like Trump, Hitler also wanted to build monuments to himself — so did Franco, Gaddafi and Alexander the Great
The current American president's aspirations for America have predecessors in Berlin, Alexandria and Constantinople
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Opinion For the titans of industry in Nazi Germany and Trump’s America, silence and complicity enable authoritarianism
America's tech leaders should heed a listen from the tycoons who enabled Hitler's consolidation of power
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Opinion Should we be comparing ICE agents to Hitler’s ‘Brownshirts?’
In the deaths of Renée Good and Alex Pretti, unsettling parallels to 1933 Germany
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Opinion Long before Trump’s second-hand Nobel, a laureate sought to curry favor with Nazis by regifting a prize
Venezuela's Maria Corina Machado seems to have taken a cue from disgraced Scandinavian novelist Knut Hamsun
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