The last great résistant standing in France, Raymond Aubrac, died on April 10. He was 97. With his passing, France has lost a political and moral figure who helped redeem the nation’s past and stood witness to its present. At the same time, France’s Jews have lost one of their own who courageously, though not…
Although Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett is known for his tragicomically inert characters, he himself was an anti-Nazi activist during World War II. Unlike the ever-absent Godot, the bedridden vagrant protagonist of his novel “Molloy” or the despairing characters in his play “Endgame” who lack legs and the ability to stand, Beckett — though painfully…
How many German police officers does it take to shut down one neo-Nazi radio station? More than 270, according to the BBC, which reported this week that authorities arrested 23 people suspected of involvement in a hate-mongering, far-right Internet broadcasting operation. Widerstands Radio — the name means “resistance” — had been under investigation since October…
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