He showed Americans the visceral horrors of the Third Reich — what would he think of Trump’s US?
William Shirer chronicled the collapse of one democracy. What would he see in his home country today?
William Shirer chronicled the collapse of one democracy. What would he see in his home country today?
The Madagascar Plan was the Nazis' last effort to solve the 'Jewish Problem' before the Final Solution
‘I arrested him,’ 98-year-old says, pointing at top Nazi’s photo on trip to a museum
Here’s a whale of a tale: In 1938, Hitler planned a covert expedition to Antarctica for the purposes of securing a direct supply line of whale fat. His reasons were both predictably martial and puzzlingly culinary in nature. Of all the political and social trends that preceded Hitler’s rise, one gastronomical development may come as…
A man says he found documents from Nazi Germany containing the signatures of Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, Joaquim von Ribbentrop and other prominent Nazis in a van he bought at an auction, the Register-Guard reported. The man, from Eugene, Oregon, bought the 1985 blue Ford Econoline at an auction in mid-September, and discovered the paperwork…
Supporters listen to Austrian Freedom Party head Heinz-Christian Strache in 2013. / Getty Images Last Friday, a German magazine article quoted Andreas Moelzer, a member of the European Parliament for the far-right Freedom Party of Austria, saying that the Third Reich had fewer rules, regulations and bans than the European Union, and probably looked informal…
In 1975, UK author Alan Coren published a humorous collection of essays called “Golfing for Cats” — and emblazoned the cover with a huge swastika. He had noticed the most popular titles in Britain were about cats, golf and Nazis. Thirty-six years later, notes the BBC this week, “Nazi books are going stronger than ever….
As part of its epic retrospective of Weimar Cinema, “Daydreams and Nightmares,” New York’s Museum of Modern Art will screen Werner Hochbaum’s 1932 film “Razzia in St. Pauli” on January 29 and February 2, an early German sound film long thought lost. An atmospheric slice-of-life look at the Hamburg underworld of pimps, prostitutes and criminals…
ס׳איז לעצטנס אַרויס אין דער ענגלישער איבערזעצונג אַ בוך אַנעקדאָטן וועגן אַמאָליקע רבנים, כּלל־טוער און גבֿירים
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