Sometimes the smallest detail reveals the most about a culture. In "The Hitler Salute: The History of a Gesture", sociologist Tilman Allert uses the Nazi transformation of the most mundane human interaction - the greeting - to show how National Socialism brought about the submission and conformity o[...]
In Nazi Germany, telling jokes about Hitler could get you killed.
Is it permissible to laugh at Hitler? This is a question that is often debated in Germany today, where, in light of the dimension of the horrors committed in the name of its citizens, many people have difficulty taking a satiric l[...]
Why the Germans? Why the Jews? Countless historians have grappled with these questions, but few have come up with answers as original and insightful as those of maverick German historian Gotz Aly. Tracing the prehistory of the Holocaust from the 1800s to the Nazis' assumption of power in 1933, Aly s[...]