WHAT WAS JOSEPH STALIN THINKING when he allied himself with Adolf Hitler for nearly two years at the beginning of World War II? What did Stalin know about Hitler's intentions to turn on him, and... read more
Articles
May 29, 2005
As Russia prepared for its lavish commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II earlier this month, there were predictable calls for the rehabilitation of... read more
January 15, 2005
BY ANDREW NAGORSKI 1/15/95
Even in the silence of the Polish countryside, Auschwitz cannot rest in peace. The name alone prompts instant recognition -- a shorthand for the criminal... read more
January 14, 2003
Remember in Lost in Translation, the lovely film about two Americans adrift in Tokyo, how disoriented Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson looked? There they were in their rooms at the soaring Park... read more
MOVIES AND MEMORY
Discussions of the Holocaust often turn on two dominant issues. The first is grasping the nearly incomprehensible horrors of Nazi Germany's mass... read more
The uproar surrounding the entrance of Jörg Haider's right-wing Freedom Party into Austria's coalition government illustrates how a discredited past can prove an erroneous... read more
On the morning of September 11 when I emerged from Grand Central Station after my regular commute into the city, I saw people staring intensely at the TV screens in a bank... read more
Remember in Lost in Translation, the lovely film about two Americans adrift in Tokyo, how disoriented Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson looked? There they were in their rooms at the soaring Park... read more