Ismael López, historian: ‘It can’t be ruled out that armed forces will have to go back to riding horses’
The scholar has published a book about mounted soldiers in conflicts between 1860 and 1945, from Custer to the Waffen-SS
In Spain, the US and Argentina, the far right is rewriting the past: ‘Nationalism needs its history’
The Milei government’s questioning of the official number of disappeared persons, the books that whitewash the Spanish dictatorship, and Meloni’s refusal to define herself as ‘anti-fascist’ highlight the risks of revisionism lacking rigor
Hunting down a Nazi with AI
The use of artificial intelligence in an investigation into the disappearance of an SS officer did not lead to the expected results
Georg Friedrich Haas, composer: ‘It is better to be a pervert than a murderer’
The Austrian musician, whose career has been marked by being the son and grandson of Nazis, inaugurates his artistic residency at Spain’s CNDM with ‘In vain,’ considered a masterpiece of the 21st century
The SS policeman who hunted his criminal comrades from within the Nazi system itself
A biography recounts the extraordinary career of Konrad Morgen, who brought 200 SS members to trial, including concentration camp commandants, and even dared to investigate Adolf Eichmann
The Nazi past that parents never wanted to talk to their children about
Hans Gräser, a 79-year-old German, discovered documents revealing the family’s ties to Hitler’s regime while clearing out his parents’ house. He’s not the only one to whom this has happened
The SS nursery: Novelist recreates the Nazi maternity wards where babies were raised to swell the ranks of Himmler’s order
Belgian writer Caroline De Mulder, in a fascinating and terrifying work, describes the workings of the Lebensborn households in ‘Himmler’s Children’
Himmler in the sauna, Hitler in love, Eichmann playing ping-pong: Richard Evans brings the Nazis closer to make them even more horrifying
In his new book, the British historian profiles 24 of the Third Reich’s criminals, bursting the cliché of pathological monstrosity
Cannibals and devil worshippers: Russia’s delusional propaganda about Ukrainian troops
A leaflet distributed by the Russian Defense Ministry depicts Kyiv’s forces as depraved in the face of a model invading army
To visit authentic dictatorships, travel back in time
To say that we live under tyranny means to ignore the cold, poverty, and terror in which millions of people lived for hundreds of years, and that many millions still suffer
French resistance fighter reveals execution of 47 German soldiers in 1944
Edmond Réveil, 98, a combat veteran who witnessed the shooting of prisoners in central France at the end of World War II, says the story ‘needs to be known’
The World War II battle where German and US soldiers joined forces against the Waffen-SS
With Hitler dead and the Nazi surrender two days away, a ragtag unit of Wehrmacht and GIs banded together to defend illustrious French prisoners at the Battle for Castle Itter
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