Joseph Goebbels, left, shows the ‘people’s receiver’ to Adolf Hitler at a radio exhibition in 1933.
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Under an authoritarian government, freedoms can come at a steep – and lasting – price.
German Sinti and Roma awaiting deportation from Asperg in southwestern Germany, May 1940.
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Some 20,000 Sinti and Roma died in Auschwitz alone.
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An all-women workforce used to weed Italy’s rice fields. And they left a powerful historical legacy.
The Nazi atomic effort relied on work done in this remote lab.
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Feb. 28 marks the 75th anniversary of Operation Gunnerside. A stealthy group of skiing commandos took out a crucial Nazi facility and stopped Hitler from getting the atomic bomb.
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What might first seem unarguable starts to look shaky when you bring twins into the equation.
‘Anti-Semitism is treatable’ – a banner at a Warsaw demonstration.
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Seventy years after the end of World War II, a battle is taking place over Polish collective memory.
The roots of organic farming in the United Kingdom can be traced to the fascism movement that began after the First World War.
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Organic farming has roots in 20th century fascism, challenging the assumption that environmentalism and progressive politics are symbiotic.
Homeless people in India wait to receive a free meal in Kolkata in 2011.
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When high income researchers take their unethical methods abroad it’s the poor who suffer.
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Responses to the recent discovery of a Nazi swastika raise some awkward questions.
Making of a demagogue.
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The Nazi fuhrer’s story about his ‘resurrection’ in 1918 is an important lesson for today.
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An exhibition in Berlin, called “Letters of Stone”, shows that there is more to memory than words and ideas.
An orange flag with the traditional Indian swastika on top of ancient Hindu temples in the Himalayas.
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The swastika, an ancient and innocent symbol in many cultures for hundreds of years, now represents racial hatred. Should the swastika be banned in North America as it is in Germany?
Tuskegee Airmen and P-47.
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What WWII-era African-American protests reveal about the historical relationship between Nazism and white supremacy in the United States.
A supporter of President Donald Trump, center, argues with a counterprotester at a rally in Boston on Saturday, Aug. 19, 2017.
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We have an ethical obligation to stand against fascists and racists in a way that doesn’t help them.
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The future and the past, money, technology and politics documented and imagined in fact and fiction, in an economist’s recommended reading.
Cara McClure of Birmingham, Alabama cries Sunday in Charlottesville, Virginia at a solidarity meeting.
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The violence in Charlottesville affects all children, but racially motivated attacks make children of color feel particularly vulnerable. Here are some ways to protect them.
French POWs being led away from the battlefield in May 1940.
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How French memories of the Dunkirk evacuation differ from those of the British.
‘Damenkneipe,’ or ‘Ladies’ Saloon,’ painted by Rudolf Schlichter in 1923. In 1937, many of his paintings were destroyed by the Nazis as ‘degenerate art.’
The 1920s and early ‘30’s looked like the beginning of the end for centuries of gay intolerance. Then came fascism and the Nazis.
2016 San Francisco pride parade.
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Gay pride has many exuberant advocates. It also has critics in unexpected places.
German prisoners of war helped to construct the road leading to Wembley stadium in 1948.
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… and why their treatment angered human rights campaigners at the time.