Fears of a Fourth Reich
From neo-Nazis to unpopular politicians, since the Second World War many people have been accused of trying to establish a Fourth Reich, but what was it?
Third Reich
Menstruation and the Holocaust
Periods are a fact of life, but little talked about. How did women in the concentration camps cope with the private being made public in the most dire and extreme circumstances?
‘A German Officer in Occupied Paris’ by Ernst Jünger review
A German Officer in Occupied Paris: The War Journals 1941-1945 by Ernst Jünger collects The Storm of Steel author’s wartime diaries.
Home Truths
The question of the responsibility of the ‘everyman’ and ‘everywoman’ remains a pressing one.
Who Worked at Ravensbrück?
In Nazi Germany, a number of female doctors and nurses worked at Ravensbrück concentration camp, where medical treatment was replaced by negligence, experimentation and violence. What led these women to take jobs there?
Postwar Germany and the legacy of Nazism
How did Germany’s postwar politicians deal with the legacy of Nazism and defeat?
Portrait of the Author as a Historian: Imre Kertész
Struggling to make sense of the Holocaust, one Hungarian novelist came to the startling realisation that the 20th century’s darkest moment might not yield any lessons for posterity.
Speer: Hitler’s Architect
The ‘Nazi who said sorry’ was a master of constructing his own narrative.
Women of Ravensbrück
The site of the concentration camp near Berlin remains little known.
Hitler's inevitable decision?
New perspectives on the Holocaust are possible if we transcend the limitations of German national history and consider it as a global catastrophe, argues Timothy Snyder.