‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
In The Writers’ Castle: Reporting History at Nuremberg, Uwe Neumahr discovers that it wasn’t just the men in the dock who had scandalous social lives and hidden agendas.
Bill Niven
Germany, Protesters and the Yellow Star
How should we view the worrying rise of protesters using symbols of the Holocaust to legitimise their cause?
Continental Shame
The Holocaust as European history.
The Postwar History of a Nazi Film
How a 1940 antisemitic propaganda weapon was turned against Israel.
Buying Nazism
In the early years of Nazi rule, the vagueness of much Nazi ideology enabled many Germans to see in Nazism what they wanted to see.
Adolf Hitler, Film Fanatic
Nazi art never caught on, its architecture was unbuilt or destroyed, but films such as 1935’s Triumph of the Will were shot and seen by millions. Hitler was a keen believer in the power of cinema and used it to spread the ideology of his murderous regime.