Italian and British governments conspired to brand Violet Albina Gibson ‘insane’ as it was politically expedient.
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For a decade the architect Albert Speer enjoyed a unique position as courtier and protege to Adolf Hitler. A new novel examines the man, and his lies.
In the 1930s, many foreign correspondents refused to cover Germany. Instead, George Ward Price got close to Hitler – and was rebuked by Churchill.
In 1946, young men in khaki shirts marched through Atlanta performing Nazi salutes and promising racial vengeance. They lasted 10 months. Today’s fascists aren’t as easily banished.
President Donald Trump is trying to prescribe the style and content of many federal sites to highlight his own authority and promote a particular view of America.
President Trump’s one-to-one summit with Vladimir Putin risks repeating an error that paved the way to the second world war
A former US ambassador and career diplomat says that history indicates that the possibilities for a lasting peace coming out of the Trump-Putin summit are pretty low.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is among the politicians who have recently compared the immigration agency ICE to the Gestapo. Such analogies risk oversimplifying history.
Catherine Chidgey’s new novel, set in an alternative UK under a version of Thatcher, continues her exploration of murky morality and the legacy of Nazi Germany.
In threatening to walk away from efforts to end the war in Ukraine, the US president is ignoring crucial lessons about the consequences of appeasement.
Members of the White Rose movement, who defied Nazi tyranny, were imprisoned, and many were executed.
Mussolini’s rise shows that strongmen are only as powerful as the democratic opposition allows. Failing to take them seriously enables their success.
Canadian leaders must situate Donald Trump’s dangerous rhetoric in the language of international law and state-to-state relations.
Taxonomy does not exist in a vacuum. It is deeply entwined with history and society.
George Orwell, who wrote about war, totalitarianism, nationalism and patriotism in the 1940s, would have had a lot to say about Donald Trump’s campaign rhetoric.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has increasingly turned to education and membership groups to promote patriotism and loyalty among the country’s youth.
Dennis Glover asks where the world might be heading and warns that maybe the endgame has already begun.
Over the past 15 years, the world has seen a financial crisis, the rise of populist politics and a fracturing of the world economic order. Sounds all a bit pre-WWII, right?
History is dotted with instances of strongmen who burnish their image or crack down on opponents after attempts on their life.
How newspapers reported the risk of war in the age of appeasement.
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