What they don’t usually tell you about Hitler: He was chronically idle and hated cats
A short but illuminating book by veteran French historian Claude Quétel examines the truths and myths surrounding the Nazi leader
Flashes of lucidity before death: The debate shaking up neuroscience
Near-death experiences and terminal lucidity raise questions about what we know about consciousness
How the historical memory of Nazism (partly) explains the success of the far right in Germany and Austria
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
A cinematic exorcism for Hitler’s birthplace
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
Hitler wouldn’t have hesitated to exterminate Freud: A book reconstructs how a diverse group of people narrowly saved him from the Nazis
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
How public housing can save 21st-century cities
In Austria, 25% of real estate is publicly owned and in Vienna nearly half of residents live in rental housing. EL PAÍS takes a trip through the history and geography of European social housing
Memoirs of a 103-year-old Holocaust survivor: ‘It was all over at an age when everything was supposed to begin’
The grandchildren of the Austrian teenager who escaped the Nazis during World War II and rebuilt her life in Argentina share her story with EL PAÍS