One of the most famous German films right after the end of World War II was called Die Mörder sind unter uns — “The Murderers are Among Us.”
The movie’s main character is Suzanne... read more
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May 15, 2016
The era of Nazi war crimes trials will soon be one of history’s closed chapters. More than 70 years after the end of World War II, the remaining cases like the current trial of the 94-year-old... read more
May 14, 2016
The tortuous route to apprehending the Holocaust’s chief henchman was full of surprises. No one could believe what squalor Eichmann lived in, or how ordinary he seemed.
“It was well... read more
May 06, 2016
Following a ground-breaking case in Germany last week, in which a former Auschwitz guard apologised for his crimes, Andrew Nagorski looks at the refusal of many former Nazis to... read more
May 05, 2016
In 1717, Frederick William, the king of Prussia, gave his 5-year-old son a full company of lead soldiers for Christmas. This was in keeping with the monarch’s insistence that the boy's education... read more
May 04, 2016
Seventy years after the Nuremberg trials, something truly extraordinary happened in a German courtroom last week. Reinhold Hanning, a 94-year-old former Auschwitz guard who will go down in history... read more
April 17, 2016
By now, the story has been widely reported. A group of Princeton High School students in the fabled New Jersey university town shared a photo on Snapchat as they played beer pong. Silly high... read more
March 11, 2016
In his two-volume biography of Adolf Hitler, the British historian Ian Kershaw wrote that 1924 was “when, like a phoenix arising from the ashes, Hitler could begin his emergence” as the “absolute... read more