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Will the Wagner Group under new leadership uphold the ruthless modus operandi that propelled it to the spotlight in Africa?
Adolf Hitler’s rise to power was aided by courts and lawyers in pre-war Germany. A similar situation exists today in the United States.
10,000 children, from mostly Jewish families, were saved from the Nazis by the Kindertransport visa-waiver scheme, which started in 1938.
A new book follows four women philosophers through ten of the worst years in the 20th century, spanning 1933, the year Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany, to the thick of the second world war.
The violence of the 1938 pogrom against Jews in Nazi Germany known as Kristallnacht was a turning point in Hitler’s ‘Final Solution.’
Two social scientists analyzed periodicals from US religious leaders in 1935 to determine what factors influenced groups’ sympathy, ambivalence or outrage about Hitler and Nazi Germany.
Ilse Koch’s husband was commandant of Buchenwald, one of Germany’s first and largest concentration camps. As the only woman among 31 people indicted for crimes committed there, she became infamous.
Finding the stories of individual Jews who fought the Nazis publicly and at great peril helped a scholar see history differently: that Jews were not passive. Instead, they actively fought the Nazis.
The second world war showed that dignity had to be enshrined in law. Defining it in order to do so is no easy task.
Only in the past few years have the stories and experiences of trans people in Nazi Germany come to light.
Weiss witnessed atrocities in Germany and South Africa and railed against them, becoming a towering figure as a writer and poet.
In 2023, International Holocaust Remembrance Day marks 90 years since the Nazis assumed power. Disabled people were the first Holocaust victims; Nazi programs discriminated against and murdered them.
Mala, a Polish Orthodox Jewish woman, escaped the Warsaw ghetto early in the second world war and survived by passing as a Catholic. A new book tells her story.
As a child of Hungarian Jews, reading Eichmann in Jerusalem was a revelation to Peter Christoff. Yet might the ‘Eichmann problem’ of criminal disregard apply, today to those exploiting fossil fuels?
These wartime abductions aren’t specific to the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Throughout history, they’ve inflicted trauma on society’s most vulnerable – making them a rich subject matter for the stage.
Many Americans know a simple version of Holocaust history, in which their country played the savior. The reality isn’t so comfortable, a historian writes.
While most daily newspapers presented the conflict as black and white, weeklies presented readers with a more sophisticated and nuanced take.
Writers seem to be especially vulnerable in polarized times, when the nuances of works are more likely to be overlooked.
The West’s new approach to Russia – bar it from international organizations, restrict international trade, prevent further military moves – looks just like how it treated Russia in the 20th century.
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Principal of South College, Durham University
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Professor Emeritus of Modern European History, University of Essex
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Shapell-Guerin Chair in Jewish Studies and Professor of History; Founding Director, USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Associate Professor of Journalism, Northeastern University
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Professor of Theatre Studies and co-director of the Australian Centre in the School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer of Media Studies (Cinema Studies), Penn State
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Adjunct Professor of German and European Studies, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor of History, Georgia State University
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Visiting Fellow in Art History, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Senior Research Fellow in History, University of Central Lancashire
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Auguste Comte Chair in Social Epistemology, University of Warwick
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Director, Center for Art Collection Ethics, Associate Professor of History, University of Denver
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Vice Provost for Inclusive Excellence and Professor of Architecture, University at Buffalo
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Lecturer, Department of Digitalization, Copenhagen Business School
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Professor of Anthropology, Director of the Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition, McMaster University
