Wünsdorf, a town nicknamed ‘Little Moscow’ during the Cold War because of its gigantic Soviet base, reflects the strong opposition in the former GDR to rearmament policies and support for Ukraine
For the National Socialists, everything was political. All forms of culture — from theater and cinema to painting and literature — were turned into instruments of propaganda and antisemitism
The photos she took and the words she wrote in ‘Vogue’ magazine were and remain an indictment of the Holocaust
The former GDR, a stronghold of the AfD, and Vienna, where the extremists won in September, avoided taking responsibility for Nazi crimes as West Germany did
The professor of contemporary history has published a new biography of the dictator, a solid portrait that covers everything from his time in Africa and Hitler’s help at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War to the essential role of the Church in the regime
Belgian writer Caroline De Mulder, in a fascinating and terrifying work, describes the workings of the Lebensborn households in ‘Himmler’s Children’
At 99, and after having survived three concentration camps, this citizen decided to return the Order of Merit after the political upheaval caused by the union of the center-right and the far-right against migration
German filmmaker Andres Veiel reexamines the figure of the director of ‘Triumph of the Will’ and ‘Olympia’ through her extensive and valuable private archives
In his new book, the British historian profiles 24 of the Third Reich’s criminals, bursting the cliché of pathological monstrosity
The Catalan artist drew for the British government and now the MuVIM in Valencia is bringing together 150 works in a first major exhibition, 30 years after his death
An exhibition in Berlin pays tribute to the small acts of resistance by anonymous individuals of various social classes and ideologies who risked their lives to confront National Socialism
Writer Karl Kraus anticipated the Orwellian vision of a totalitarian society influenced by doublethink that obscured the Fuhrer’s aims
An extraordinary documentary delves into the bitter debate over the fate of the building in the Austrian city of Braunau where the Nazi leader was born
Spyridon Louis, a humble water carrier without any athletics training, was the first great hero of the Olympic Games when, at the last minute and against all odds, he brought victory to Athens in 1896
A Weimar exhibition reveals that dozens of professors and students at the school, a hotbed of artistic vanguard in 1930s Germany, were members of the party or accepted commissions from the Third Reich
Major sporting events, such as the 1936 Games, served the Reich as loudspeakers for National Socialism, as documented by an exhibition on the grounds of the Olympic Stadium in Berlin
In a new book, retired general Richard Dannatt and expert archivist Allen Packwood analyze the Normandy landings on the 80th anniversary, from the perspective of the prime minister’s contribution to the ‘Longest Day’
Pieces stolen by the Nazi regime in occupied Europe star in three ambitious simultaneous exhibitions in Austria
The Oświęcim Jewish Museum has acquired negatives discovered in 2020 that reveal the daily life of the residents of the Polish city at the beginning of the Nazi occupation
The former family home of a series of rich industrialists from Milan was designed by Piero Portaluppi, a prolific Italian architect. Today, the residence is visited as a monument and used as a film set
The book ‘Bajo el manto del Caudillo’ depicts Franco’s Spain as the European country where the most high-ranking officials and collaborators of the Third Reich were in hiding
Its promoter, the Polish-Jewish jurist Raphael Lemkin, warned of the ‘contagious nature of any social psychosis’
While the father of psychoanalysis managed to escape from Vienna after the Anschluss in 1938, four of his sisters died in the camps. Three of them were gassed in Treblinka
In her latest photobook, Bulgarian visual narrator Hristina Tasheva explores the meaning of utopias and their drift
Hitler became chancellor of Germany through the ballot box. With elections taking place in many parts of the world, this year could trigger an equally tragic turning point
The book of memoirs ‘Underground in Berlin’ tells the unusual story of Marie Jalowicz, who defied the Third Reich without leaving Berlin, circumventing the Gestapo and enduring rape, freezing conditions and hunger
Jonathan Glazer’s ‘The Zone of Interest’ is a World War II story about daily life at Auschwitz from the German commander’s perspective