Russia and the Ukraine War
Baron Ismay, who served as Secretary-General of NATO from 1952 to 1957, famously described its purpose as keeping “the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down”.(...)
Miriam Gebhardt’s Crimes Unspoken
The rape of hundreds of thousands of German women in the waning days of the Second World War has historically gotten short shrift, both as crime and tragedy. (...)
Natasha Lennard’s Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life
Fascism is the order of the day. One might confuse it with populism, or that the two are somehow vying for supremacy. (...)
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.(...)
Keith Gessen’s A Terrible Country
Keith Gessen’s A Terrible Country is based on a year he spent in Moscow looking after his elderly grandmother who was suffering from dementia. It is a remarkable and absorbing book that charts the author’s complicated relationship with all things Russian.(...)