To commemorate this day, I thought I’d put up some footage shot some months after the liberation, when Auschwitz I was being used as a
After each performance of Dr. Kritzinger’s 12 O’Clock, I come out on stage (still in costume) and take audience questions. A question that came up during Sunday
On the first day of my college freshman physics class, my professor brought out a boxful of letters from cranks. He read one of them out.
I dedicate this post to someone who’s recently taken to trip-trapping on my bridge uninvited. Take it away, Mr. Shives: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrxxZunGwtM] What he said.
Steve Shives presents another fine entry in his addictive “Five Stupid Things…” series. While I do have one quibble with its description of Nazi administrative efficiency–Hitler’s
With the release of the Senate torture report, I took a look back to see if I’d ever done a post on torture, either in
The Daily Mail–I can hear some of you groaning already–claims that an amateur sleuth and a scientist have finally unmasked Jack the Ripper. They claim
Yesterday, the U.S. Holocaust museum held a Twitter chat about the impending emergence of Hitler’s manifesto Mein Kampf from copyright and what the former owners, the
A fascinating article on the Reichstag Fire by historian Richard J Evans appears in the London Review of Books. An excerpt: The Third Reich was
Six days from now we’ll have reached the 44th anniversary of the Mossad’s capture of SS Lt. Colonel Adolf Eichmann, who’d been hiding in Argentina