Unburying the Remains of the Third Reich
As the German right ascends, the nation is still grappling with its fascist past — and how to handle its remains.
The awful truth about Vladimir Putin's mother and how her brush with the most gruesome of deaths made him so barbaric
Some noticed just how light these corpses, ravaged by hunger, were as they loaded them on sleds and dragged them along the ...
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Resistance is Not Futile
The third volume of Peter Weiss’s masterwork The Aesthetics of Resistance opens with the narrator describing the murder of ...
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Poland hopes exhumation of Volyn massacre victims in Ternopil region will begin after Easter
The exhumation of Polish victims of the Volyn massacre in the former village of Puzhnyky (now Sadove) in Ukraine's Ternopil ...
EL PAÍS English5d
The drums of war are beating louder in eastern Germany: ‘Here, we still remember what Germany owes to Russia’
Wünsdorf, a town nicknamed ‘Little Moscow’ during the Cold War because of its gigantic Soviet base, reflects the strong ...
The Herald10d
Forgotten heroes: How African soldiers fought in World War II
When World War II started, Africa was (save for certain exceptions) a tapestry of colonies. A third of the continent’s ...
German parliament agrees to €1 trillion for war
Three goals are being pursued with Germany’s massive rearmament offensive: Breaking free from military dependence on the US, ...
Wall Street Journal1d
‘The Fifteen’ Review: Lives in Captivity
During World War II, the U.S. began amassing huge numbers of German prisoners when the Afrika Korps, the Wehrmacht’s elite desert troops, surrendered to the Allied forces at Tunisia in May 1943.