Natalie Sarkic-Todd / 07 May 2022
How to Read Russia
First Person Lessons
The sudden reset in Russia relations has thrown everything up in the air.(...)
Adolf Hitler
Josh White / 14 Feb 2022
Quick to the Punch
The Sins of The Daily Express
The Daily Express Building still stands at 120 Fleet Street. It's a monument to a different era in British journalism. (...)
Joel Schalit / 17 Jun 2020
George Floyd in Germany
The America Problem
All of the signs were in English. For most Berliners, the language is so common, they take it for granted. Especially for a city in which a quarter of the population is international.(...)
Joe Keady / 12 Feb 2020
German Democracy in Crisis
Alternative für Deutschland in Thuringia
Given the extent of the far-right resurgence in Europe over the last decade, it's often difficult to predict where the shock waves are going to come next. On 5 February, it was Thuringia's turn. (...)
John Foster / 10 Jan 2020
Imagining a Europe Made Whole
Simone Zelitsch’s Judenstaat
Perhaps it is a sign of the wounds inflicted by National Socialism that so much speculative fiction has been written exploring how things might have turned out differently. (...)
Sean Quinn / 20 Dec 2019
Nationalism, Italian-Style
Sourcing the Crisis
Chaos reigned on the road between Musso and Dongo, two small towns north of Lake Como. (...)
Joel Schalit / 16 Oct 2019
Last Train to Halle
History At a Standstill
I've never gotten the hang of taking trains in Germany. I avoid using them whenever possible.(...)
Joel Schalit / 15 May 2019
The Weight of Auschwitz
Poland Battles With Its Past
“You must come to Auschwitz. I go there once a year, with a group of third-generation Holocaust survivors.” Blond-haired and blue-eyed, in his late thirties, I found it hard to place him there.(...)
Matt Rubenstein / 29 Apr 2019
Pinkwashing Fascism
Alternative für Deutschland and the Gay Right
In 1934, in the infamous Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler ordered the liquidation of the entire leadership of the paramilitary SA, led by Hitler’s one-time second-in-command Ernst Röhm.(...)
Joel Schalit / 11 Apr 2019
Repetition Syndrome
Towards a Nationalist European Union
The first time the heads of Italy and Germany’s two biggest fascist parties met was in Venice, in June 1934. Things didn’t go so well for Benito Mussolini, who, a longtime hero of the new German chancellor, sought Adolf Hitler’s assurance that Italy could control Austria.(...)