Josh White / 01 Nov 2021
Death of a Press Baron
The Robert Maxwell Legacy
A media mogul died thirty years ago this Friday. It was a dark night on the 5th of November, 1991.(...)
Nazi Germany
John Foster / 09 Mar 2020
Investing in Trump
David Enrich’s Dark Towers
Long ago, when the single income of a TV dad like Ward Cleaver or a Jim Anderson could support a family with cash to spare, banking was viewed, not without justice, as a boring profession. (...)
Matt Rubenstein / 31 Jan 2020
Changing the Historical Record
Gdánsk’s Museum of the Second World War
Located at the intersection of two channels emanating from the scenic Motława River, Gdánsk’s recently opened Museum of the Second World War has quickly become one of the city’s main tourist attractions.(...)
John Foster / 24 Jan 2020
Remembrance Culture
Hope Harrison’s After the Berlin Wall
Memory is one of the most important elements of modern societies. Nowhere has its centrality been so fully illustrated than in Germany.(...)
John Foster / 21 Jun 2019
Just Call It Propaganda
The Fake News Phenomenon
The formation of public opinion was always the purview of the state.(...)
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.(...)
Charlie Bertsch / 05 Apr 2019
Exploding German Identity Politics
Rammstein’s Deutschland
The hysteria was predictable. Posing as both concentration camp inmates and their Nazi executioners, the video for Rammstein’s new song “Deutschland” was destined to infuriate one demographic, just as selecting a black actress, Ruby Commey, to personify Germania, was bound to piss off another.(...)