Actually, I won’t be settling that question, which is closing in on “Which is the one true faith?” on the Useless-Discussion-Prompt-O-Meter. But, in response to
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The wife of Talking Points Memos’ Josh Marshall discovered recently that her maternal great-grandfather didn’t die at the hands of the Einsatzgruppen when they swept
Hi, All. As I may have mentioned once or twice, Summer of Long Knives, my new thriller set in pre-war Nazi Germany, is due to
One of the advantages of being on social media is occasionally interacting with people who’ve amazed you from afar. A few weeks ago on Twitter,
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