According to Mike Godwin’s celebrated law, if an internet discussion goes on long enough, someone will inevitably compare ...

My assumption that humanist academics were all on the left was foolish, of course. But so was my defeatist certainty that ...

Shortly before he was hanged by the Nazis in 1945 at age 39, Dietrich Bonhoeffer reportedly told a fellow prisoner: “This is the end — for me the beginning of life.” ...

Claud Cockburn built his reputation by encouraging readers to be far less trusting of the official version of their reality ...

One of the greatest military rivalries of the ancient world featured dramatic scenes of elephants crossing the Alps, and a ...

"To Be or Not to Be": The Ernst Lubitsch World War II comedy starring Carole Lombard and Jack Benny is about a couple in an acting troupe who befuddle Nazis in an attempt to stop a list of members of ...

There is far more to 1919-1939 Germany than it simply being a prelude to Hitler’s rise to power. As financial ruin, military ...

The Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau, which was liberated 80 years ago, is an enduring symbol of the Holocaust. Part of German dictator Adolf Hitler's "Final Solution" plan for the genocide of ...

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