Channel 4 is marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Channel Islands with Britain Under the Nazis: The Forgotten Occupation (w.t.). The series delves into the period when Britain ...

What significance did sport have for the Nazis? Sport played an important role for the National Socialists, although they did not speak of sport, but of physical education. Their primary goal was to ...

A Nazi doctor known for barbaric prisoner experiments and handpicking gas chamber victims led a carefree post-war life in Argentina – despite authorities knowing his true identity, declassified ...

In 1943, Pablo Picasso received a desperate letter from an artist called Jeanne Kosnick-Kloss. “It’s all too late,” she wrote. “I have just been told that Otto has been sent to the north. Please do ...

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“In the dark times / will there also be singing? / Yes, there will also be singing. / About the dark times.” –Bertolt Brecht When people imagine life under an authoritarian government, they probably ...

One of the earliest expressions of totalitarianism in German-Austrian writer Daniel Kehlmann’s novel The Director unfolds in a classroom. In 1939, Jakob, the son of the Expressionist auteur G.W. Pabst ...

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This article was originally published on Moment Magazine. Music, at its core, is freedom. It cannot be caged by ideology or controlled by propaganda. The Nazis understood that, which is why they tried ...