Two years after Canada’s parliament unwittingly gave a standing ovation to a veteran of a Nazi SS division, Ukraine’s own president is honouring figures from the same dark chapter of wartime nationalism.
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Loyalty outranks expertise, and reality bends to the leader’s word. From Nazi Germany to Imperial Japan, fascist war machines collapse on the same contradictions.
Fashion, film, Nazi mythology and a film to scare the bejasus out of you this week.
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.
This compelling film examines survival and moral compromise among those caught inside the machinery of the Nazi regime.
Donald Trump’s claim rests on a selective reading of wartime history.
A 1951 defense agreement between the United States and Denmark allows the US to build military installations on Greenland to protect the region.
Russian forces are still battling over territory in eastern Ukraine after 1,418 days of war.
One of the main lessons of Arendt’s Origins of Totalitarianism is that we must actively think in the now, and try to grasp new realities on their own terms.
The new film highlights how the tribunal broke ground – and where it fell short – raising enduring questions about complicity, morality and whether humanity can ever truly judge its worst crimes.
The artist’s incredible skill once helped the painting to serve as a life-saving disguise.
Nuremberg, often called ‘history’s greatest trial’, officially opened on October 18 1945. It held senior Nazi leaders to account for war crimes during the Holocaust.
The presence of two portraits by German artist Otto Dix in Canadian museum collections is difficult to explain outside of the context of Nazi occupation and spoliation.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is among the politicians who have recently compared the immigration agency ICE to the Gestapo. Such analogies risk oversimplifying history.
Germany’s ‘Staatsräson’ has long held Israel’s security as its ‘reason of state.’
In the popular novel The German Lesson, a character based on Nolde falls victim to Nazi policies on “degenerate art”. Recent research on the painter’s life tells a more complex story.
Exploring themes such as history, politics and identity, this year’s programme is surprisingly fresh.
Amy Buller’s Darkness of Germany describes the difficult decisions Germans faced as fascists took over their country – including whether to flee or stay and fight.
The scientist who discovered Alzheimer’s disease died in a Nazi transit camp and was almost forgotten by history.
Before the Nazis, German universities were among the best in the world. Step by step, the universities gave up their independence until they were instruments of the state.
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Principal of South College, Durham University
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