Over the past 15 years, the world has seen a financial crisis, the rise of populist politics and a fracturing of the world economic order. Sounds all a bit pre-WWII, right?
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The Long Shadow of German Colonialism tells of a brutal history, and how this past lives on today.
The German far-right’s effective use of TikTok and historical misinformation mean those concerned with how the Nazi past is presented need to find new tactics to counter their rhetoric.
Hundreds of thousands of people in Germany are taking to the streets to push back against the far-right, nationalist policies of the AfD, which currently holds 11% of the seats in parliament.
After the ravages of war, Christian Dior’s groundbreaking 1947 collection of supremely feminine designs signalled a sense of leaving the dark days behind.
Official investigations of suspected Nazi collaborators have long closed. But families are still grappling with the hidden secrets of loved ones, a new book details.
The Holocaust is not just a memory in Israel. It’s part of how Israelis understand themselves and their country − and it’s playing a part in how the country responds to the Hamas massacres of Oct. 7.
10,000 children, from mostly Jewish families, were saved from the Nazis by the Kindertransport visa-waiver scheme, which started in 1938.
It’s a fallacy that the medical atrocities carried out by the Nazis involved just a handful of radicalised doctors.
The European bourgeoisie could not forgive Hitler because he applied in Europe colonialist procedures previously reserved for the supposedly inferior Arabs, Indians, and Africans.
The violence of the 1938 pogrom against Jews in Nazi Germany known as Kristallnacht was a turning point in Hitler’s ‘Final Solution.’
Israel’s foundational social contract – that the government would keep Israelis safe – was severed with the deadly attacks by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023.
Russia seeks evidence in western countries that justifies its anti-Ukraine propaganda, and Canadian Parliament has provided it with much-needed ammunition for a tired and erroneous argument.
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.
Despite opening to mixed reviews, the final instalment is a classic Indiana Jones caper that doesn’t disappoint.
50 films, around a third brilliant, and only two duds. We would never find this outside of an international film festival.
Could non-violent action by women ultimately replace military violence? There is much to learn from the bravery of female-led resistance movements during the second world war.
Yom HaShoah, Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, pointedly commemorates Jewish resistance to the Nazis.
The memorialisation of the Holocaust was key to the ideas and practice of the popular Australian Jewish antifascist left in the 1940s and 1950s.
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Assistant Professor of Media, Communications and Journalism, California State University, Fresno
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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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Professor, Russian and East European History, University of Alberta
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Associate Professor of Political Science, Marist College
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Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor of History, Dartmouth College
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Professor of Modern History, University of Nottingham
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Professor of Modern and Contemporary History, Keele University
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Professor of History, University of Washington
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Research Assistant Professor of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University
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Professor Emeritus of Modern European History, University of Essex
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Professor of Engineering Dynamics and Vibration, University of Cambridge
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Professor of History and Director of the Undergraduate Program in Judaic Studies, Fairfield University
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Professor of Greek, University of St Andrews
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Vice Provost for Inclusive Excellence and Professor of Architecture, University at Buffalo
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Research Fellow, King's College London
