Nazis

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• 2/27/2022
  

  Ghosts in the Mirror: France's Crusade Against Former Nazis in the Algerian Insurgency

  by Danny Orbach

  Nazi fugitives and mercenaries took on an outsize significance in the strategic imaginations of both French and West German governments and intelligence agencies in the Cold War; they were most influential not through their actions but through distorting government policy through these delusions of power.

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• 12/12/2021
  

  Are Historians Too Credulous of the Single Culprit Explanation of the Reichstag Fire?

  by Benjamin Carter Hett

  Did Marinus van der Lubbe act alone in setting the Reichstag Fire? Historians who accept that theory – including giants in the field like Richard J. Evans – should recognize conflicts of interest in the sources supporting it and dig in to newly available archives to make sure. 

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• 12/12/2021
  

  80 Years Ago, Hitler's Declaration of War Against the United States Sealed the Fate of Europe's Jews

  by Brendan Simms

  While German forces exterminated Jews on the Eastern Front as enemy combatants, Hitler held the Jews of central and western europe as hostages against American entry into global war. After December 12, 1941 the political restraints on the Final Solution ended. 

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• SOURCE: New York Review of Books
  11/15/2021
  

  Should Germany Prosecute the Few Surviving Nazis?

  by David Motadel

  "Most of the perpetrators of the Holocaust have passed away, but German courts still have an opportunity to prosecute those who remain alive. It is the final chapter in the country’s long and not very successful history of ensuring justice for their victims."

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  11/1/2021
  

  Right-Wing Ideologues Turn Aggressors Into Victims

  by Waitman Wade Beorn

  "Allowing the right to weave pernicious counternarratives and to create saints from sinners will only embolden future Ashli Babbitts and spawn more violence. "

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• SOURCE: Times of Israel
  8/27/2021
  

  Researchers Work on Mystery Uranium Cubes to Better Understand Nazi Progress on Atomic Bomb

  New forensic research techniques could fill in missing details of the progress of Nazi nuclear weapons programs and improve contemporary efforts to enforce nuclear nonproliferation. 

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• SOURCE: Made
  7/16/2021
  

  A Hitler-Style Seizure of Power Was Never in Trump's Reach

  by Waitman Wade Beorn

  A historian of the German military under Nazism argues that Trump lacked the ability to recruit the military to his side the way that Hitler did, and the US faces greater danger from extremist paramilitaries or civil attempts to subvert democracy than from a military coup.

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• 6/27/2021
  

  Ambitious for War: How German-Soviet Collaboration Set the Course for WWII

  by Ian Ona Johnson

  After the Treaty of Versailles and the Bolshevik Revolution, Germany and the Soviet Union forged a partnership of pariah governments to industrialize and arm their nations, and making inevitable the slaughter that unfolded in the eastern front of the second world war.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  1/17/2021
  

  How a Historian Got Close, Maybe Too Close, to a Nazi Thief

  Historian Jonathan Petropoulous forged a relationship with Bruno Lohse, the art agent of Hermann Göring. That relationship proved ethically dubious when the professor did paid contract work for heirs of a German Jewish family to trace a stolen painting and the trail led to a foundation owned by Lohse.

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• SOURCE: New York Post
  12/12/2020
  

  Hitler’s Pet Alligator to be Stuffed, Put on Display in Russia

  The 84 year-old reptile will be stuffed and displayed in Moscow after traveling from Mississippi to Berlin and being gifted to Russia by British troops after the capture of Berlin in 1945. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11/13/2020
  

  Thieves Grab Nazi Memorabilia in Museum Heists, Puzzling Police

  Since March, four museums in the Netherlands and Denmark have been broken into, and memorabilia, including Nazi uniforms, has been stolen. 

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• 8/2/2020
  

  Conventional Culture in the Third Reich

  by Moritz Föllmer

  Although Nazi aesthetics are generally associated with the monumental architecture of Albert Speer and the propaganda films of Leni Riefenstahl, Germans generally encountered conventionality in art, music and cinema. This helped to normalize the acts of the Third Reich and to allow ordinary Germans to dissociate themselves from Nazism after 1945.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  6/23/2020
  

  In Germany, Confronting Shameful Legacy Is Essential Part of Police Training

  In the postwar era, Germany fundamentally redesigned law enforcement to prevent past atrocities from ever repeating. Its approach may hold lessons for police reform everywhere.

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• SOURCE: TIME
  6/16/2020
  

  After World War II, Most ‘Ordinary Nazis’ Returned to Lives of Obscurity. The World Must Recover Their Stories Before It’s Too Late

  by Daniel Lee

  The act of recovering perpetrators’ voices sheds light on consent and conformity under the swastika, enabling us to ask new questions about responsibility, blame and manipulation.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  6/3/2020
  

  How Crowdsourcing Aided a Push to Preserve the Histories of Nazi Victims

  With people around the globe sheltering at home amid the pandemic, the Arolsen Archives asked for help indexing them. Thousands joined the effort.

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• SOURCE: TIME
  6/2/2020
  

  The Search for the Truth About the Nazi Plot to Assassinate FDR

  by Howard Blum

  The events surrounding Operation Long Jump, as the Nazi assassination mission that targeted the Tehran Conference was known, remained a deeply buried official secret.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  5/31/2020
  

  Nazi or Hero? Historian Looks at the Stories a German Consultant Told of His Father

  A study from historian Michael Wolffsohn finds some truth and some falsehoods in a prominent businessman’s portrayal of his father as a Nazi resister.

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• SOURCE: Upworthy
  4/28/2020
  

  75 Years Ago, the U.S. Blew Up a Giant Swastika in Nazi Germany and it's Still so Satisfying to Watch

  Local authorities in Nurnberg recently voted to conserve (not rebuild or renovate) the site of some of Hitler's most notorious speeches.

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• SOURCE: Jewish News
  3/22/2020
  

  Czech Museum Director Fired

  Director of the Lidice memorial, Martina Lehmannová, was let go amid accusations that the government is trying to whitewash inconvenient facts to suit its preferred narrative.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/17/2020
  

  She Tracked Nazi-Looted Art. She Quit When No One Returned It.

  A researcher stopped working for a German museum after she says she lost faith in its commitment to return works with tainted provenances.