Nazi Germany

Draw Me a Controversy: On the Banning of Beloved Children’s Book Author Eric Carle

Lisa Tolin Explores How “Draw Me a Star” Was Swept Into a Dangerous Culture War

 
By Lisa Tolin  March 10, 2025
Fascism

How Walter Benjamin’s Iconic Antifascist Essay Escaped Europe

By Ed Simon  December 13, 2024
Poetry

Snapshots in Verse: On Hannah Arendt’s Long-Lost Poems

By Literary Hub  December 9, 2024
Cars

The “People’s Car.” How Nazi Germany Created the Volkswagen Beetle

By Witold Rybczynski  October 8, 2024
The Holocaust

Life a Cold Crematorium: A Long-Lost Memoir from a Holocaust Survivor

By József Debreczeni  January 25, 2024
Baillie Gifford Prize

On Art, Music and the Humanist Spirit in the Face of Nazi Atrocities

By Jeremy Eichler  November 6, 2023
Nazi Germany

“Woman, Jew, Intellectual:” How the Nazi State Saw Hannah Arendt

By Wolfram Eilenberger  August 10, 2023
Nazi Resistance

Between Fear and Resignation: How German Writers Reacted to Hitler’s Rise

By Uwe Wittstock  June 23, 2023
World War II

Fictionalizing the Stories of Two Women Who Fought to Save Jewish Children in World War II-Era Europe

By Kristin Beck  September 16, 2022
Nazis

How Josephine Baker Learned to Hate the Nazis Before Most of America

By Damien Lewis  July 13, 2022
Nazi Germany

Remembering the Artists Who Were Among the Early Victims of Nazi Death Camps

By Charlie English  August 11, 2021
Nazi Germany

A Day in the Life of an 11-Year-Old Spy in 1939 Berlin

By Rebecca Donner  August 9, 2021
Literary History

How Kurt Wolff Transformed Pantheon into a 20th-Century Publishing Powerhouse

By Alexander Wolff  March 10, 2021
The Holocaust

To Catch a Killer: Uncovering the Massacre of a Jewish Family in
Nazi Europe

By Wendy Lower  February 16, 2021
Politics

Writing Through the Silences of a Lost Family History

By Jonathan Lichtenstein  January 20, 2021
We Have Ways of Making You Talk

Question for American Fascists: What on Earth Do You Lack?

By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   January 14, 2021
Reality?

How Do We Rebuild a Shared American Reality on a Foundation of Lies?

By Roger Berkowitz  October 15, 2020
Time to Eat the Dogs

Andrew Denning on the Nazi Cult of Mobility

By Time to Eat the Dogs   October 6, 2020
Nazi Germany

Indifference and Cruelty: What Made Nazi Germany Possible

By Géraldine Schwarz  September 21, 2020
The Cold War

Days Five and Six at Yalta, the Conference That Shaped the World: Secret Meetings and the Founding of the UN

By Diana Preston  February 10, 2020
The Cold War

Day Four at Yalta, the Conference That Shaped the World: The Polish Problem

By Diana Preston  February 7, 2020
The Cold War

Day Three at Yalta, the Conference That Shaped the World: ‘The Whole Palace Was Bugged!’

By Diana Preston  February 6, 2020
The Cold War

Day Two at Yalta, the Conference That Shaped the World: When Churchill Quoted Marx to Stalin

By Diana Preston  February 5, 2020
The Cold War

Day One at Yalta, the Conference That Shaped the World: ‘De Gaulle Thinks He’s Joan of Arc’

By Diana Preston  February 4, 2020
WWII

Patrick Modiano on the Bookshop Owner Who Escaped the Nazis

By Patrick Modiano  January 27, 2020
Immigration

Relearning Old Lessons: What a Forgotten Novel Can Teach Us About Immigration in 2020

By Anne Boyd Rioux  January 13, 2020
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