Dušan Makavejev’s Innocence Unprotected
Serbian director Dušan Makavejev’s 1968 film Innocence Unprotected manages both to explore the legacy of wartime trauma seriously and to make fun of itself in the process. (...)
The Robert Maxwell Legacy
A media mogul died thirty years ago this Friday. It was a dark night on the 5th of November, 1991.(...)
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. (...)
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.(...)
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.(...)
The Fake News Phenomenon
The formation of public opinion was always the purview of the state.(...)
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.(...)
Rammstein’s Deutschland