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January 07, 2025
Elżbieta Zawacka risked her life to rid her country of the Nazis. After the war, she was targeted by the Communist authorities.
November 08, 2024
The Untold Story of an American Reporter in Nazi Germany by Pamela D. Toler
September 16, 2024
After his plane was shot down over China, Jack Downey of the CIA was taken prisoner. He was held captive for more than 20 years.
May 01, 2024
A professor of philosophy—and occasional spy for Britain—sent back early warnings from his time in Germany after World War I.
April 24, 2024
Taiwan's punching very much above its apparent weight
January 02, 2024
Review by Andrew Nagorski
November 30, 2023
The Realpolitik operator re-opened China for Nixon and found détente with the Soviets—and sent incalculable numbers of Americans, Vietnamese, and other human beings to their death.
October 24, 2023
As a young war correspondent, she defied the skepticism of her male colleagues. Her drive left many struggling to catch up.
June 29, 2023
There’s nothing more dangerous for a strongman than showing signs of weakness. Putin’s cowardice is now clear for all to see.
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December 06, 2022
The battle for Stalingrad was a critical victory for Soviet forces—but its ugly realities were obscured by the mythmaking that followed.
November 30, 2022
by Andrew Nagorski
August 30, 2022
The West was euphoric with his dramatic steps to end the Cold War. But at home, his openness unleashed building pressures he couldn’t contain with half-measures toward freedom.
August 29, 2022
The father of psychoanalysis transformed how we think about the mind in general and sexuality in particular, but he was a real cigar-and-slippers guy around the house.
August 20, 2022
A new book suggests Sigmund Freud would not have been the father of psychoanalysis history remembers him as were it not for his wife, Martha
August 19, 2022
Newly released Vatican archives cast Pius XII's wartime leadership in a damning light.
August 11, 2022
Despite his insights into human behavior and his own identity as a Jew, the father of psychoanalysis failed to see the dangers of Nazism.
July 08, 2022
Selected by Andrew Nagorski, the author of the forthcoming ‘Saving Freud: The Rescuers Who Brought Him to Freedom.’
June 01, 2022
The World’s Anti-Putin Powerhouse Is Starting to Crack... And the results could be disastrous.
May 05, 2022
This is how we can avoid falling into the trap of a man who is ready to take the whole world down with him
April 13, 2022
It’s a high-stakes, global show of defiance like no other.
March 16, 2022
Review by Andrew Nagorski
March 09, 2022
The Russian president thinks the brutal economic beating his country is facing over Ukraine could ultimately work to his advantage. But he is sorely mistaken.
March 08, 2022
If history is any indication, Vladimir Putin already has one foot in his political grave.
October 18, 2021
by Andrew Nagorski
June 01, 2020
Were the Soviets victorious? Yes. Triumphant? No.
December 29, 2019
Richard Sorge drank heavily, bedded his associates’ wives—and provided the Soviets crucial information after Hitler’s invasion.
November 09, 2019
The destruction of The Wall was a key symbolic act at the center of a much wider drama.
September 01, 2019
Zygmunt Nagorski served in the Polish army that fought Hitler’s invasion in 1939. Time and again throughout the war, he survived, even as he lost family and friends.
August 30, 2019
he violent crackdown by the government looked like the lesser of two evils. But it ultimately couldn’t protect Polish leaders or their Soviet masters.
June 05, 2019
D-Day Did Not Turn the Tide in WWII. That Happened in 1941
December 02, 2018
A united Germany might not have emerged at all without the consummate skill that the late president displayed.
November 08, 2018
The author of ‘Hitlerland’ looks at the way Americans in Germany viewed the long brutal night that marked a turning point on the road to the Holocaust.
September 03, 2018
uth behind the Israelis’ 1960 kidnapping of Adolf Eichmann, “the architect of the Holocaust,” is stranger than the fiction in the new film “Operation Finale.”
July 31, 2018
His novels earned him exile from Russia, and then he was welcomed back, but Voinovich was always a thorn in the side of the powerful.
May 15, 2018
The accident released 500 times as much radiation as the bombing of Hiroshima. The abandoned town feels like a Ukrainian Pompeii.
December 05, 2016
I’ve seen this kind of gambit before. Back then, nervous commentators missed the long term value of a president being a little unpredictable.
October 16, 2016
At time when the temptations of totalitarianism are on the rise, we should look at what Spielberg called this “artist’s view of history, democracy and freedom.”
August 19, 2016
Jan Karski was a courier for the Polish underground determined to bring evidence of Nazi inhumanity—but the West wasn’t ready to listen.
July 02, 2016
While the vote in June came as a shock to many, decades ago a famous Italian journalist documented the currents working to tear Europe apart.
June 11, 2016
He was the most wanted Nazi who had evaded capture. Here's how a tiny band of Israelis went into another country and brought him to justice.
June 06, 2016
The world’s great villains can no longer escape their crimes
June 04, 2016
Why it matters to stand up for justice and demand atonement.
May 15, 2016
Whether aging war criminals ever serve prison time is secondary to them being found guilty based on the evidence.
May 05, 2016
A scholar's account of Prussia's enlightened despot.
April 17, 2016
Did proto-Nazis invent bigoted games before American college students got into it?
December 07, 2015
Knowledge Can Kill
July 27, 2015
The death, and rebirth, of its modern state.
July 16, 2015
Book Review: Léon Blum: Prime Minister, Socialist, Zionist
March 06, 2015
Danse Macabre: Not every artist fled in horror from the Third Reich
January 12, 2015
Peter Pomerantsev portrays a Russia gripped by cynicism, deception, and despair and ruled by an elite whose only concern is perpetuating its own wealth and power.
November 07, 2014
The former KGB officer’s campaign to rebuild the lost Soviet Union is racing against the ruble’s collapse.
August 04, 2014
A story of guilt and innocence in Stalin's kingdom
June 24, 2014
Leaked recordings of top Polish officials dissing the Obama administration have worked to Putin’s benefit. Could he be behind them?
May 29, 2014
The death of Poland’s last communist dictator comes 25 years after its first free elections, two events that tell us a lot about the old Cold War and the new one.
May 09, 2014
An American chaplain pursues a connection.
July 12, 2013
Book Review
March 22, 2013
Book Review
January 03, 2013
Newsweek Memories
January 01, 2013
Liberalism's Enemies, Then and Now
July 16, 2012
The man who crushed the Wehrmacht
June 19, 2012
Americans and Germans Were Slow To See the Nazi Danger
March 05, 2012
History's Lesson
March 01, 2012
World War II Magazine
January 29, 2012
Right-wing extremism still flourishes in Germany, but forbidding the publication of Hitler’s screed accomplishes nothing - and may even make it more alluring to the wrong people
January 23, 2012
The Gulag nightmare in an animals eye
January 09, 2012
"It's Leadership, Stupid."
August 29, 2011
The torment of a novelist in Nazi Germany
August 10, 2010
A Lesson for America
June 28, 2010
A Journalist Unlocks her Father's Heroic History
April 30, 2010
The American Hero of the Future (and the Present)
February 21, 2010
by S.M. Plokhy
November 16, 2009
The curious mythology of the Vietnam war
September 25, 2009
Affirming Reagan's Missle Defense Vision
December 08, 2008
A historian hears the echoes of the Great War
October 22, 2006
How a failed revolution in Eastern Europe ended up saving untold numbers of lives
June 09, 2006
Book Review Caly Czas (All the Time) by Janusz Anderman
November 10, 2005
This fabled Chinese city sizzles with vitality, optimism and an unstoppable energy
June 27, 2005
He deceived himself about Hitler, and it cost millions of Russian lives
January 15, 2005
Auschwitz
February 01, 1983
This fabled Chinese city sizzles with vitality, optimism and an unstoppable energy
