In the news yesterday was a story about a bell still in active use in Austria that was dedicated to Adolf Hitler. A rare find
Best Movie Seen In Theaters: None. I hadn’t realized until just now that I haven’t been in a movie theater since I caught Skyfall with my
In the 1920s, one of the most popular youth groups in Germany was the Wandervogel. Founded in the 1890s, the Wandervogel was a male-only youth
Every part of a story contains the DNA of the whole. An example of this can be found in two John Travolta dance sequences: one
The protagonist of Summer of Long Knives doesn’t have a historical counterpart. He’s a product of imagination inspired by three different detectives from film and television. The
Though old German laws against homosexuality–most notoriously Paragraph 175 of the German penal code–persisted through the Weimar republic, the 1920s were a time when German
From Slate: No. One cannot just go around reading the books of friends and acquaintances. The exceptions to this rule are few and obvious—looking at a
[youtube=://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgAo1kj-duU&w=560&h=315] My thanks to Larry Dahlke for providing the voice. There’s no way I could have sold this the way he does.
One of the things that surprised me when I started researching the Nazi police apparatus for Summer of Long Knives was how small the Gestapo really was:
In 2007, Slate inaugurated the A Fine Whine column, in which a Slate writer lets fly at some (usually petty) annoyance for a couple of pages. It