The Nazi Concentration Camp System
There was a common saying in Germany in the 1930s, "Lieber Gott, mach mich dumm, damit ich nicht nach Dachau kumm" (Dear God, make me dumb, that I might not…
A Tale of Two Artists
As with many other things during the 1930s, the Nazi effort to bring the arts under their control was hamstrung by the turf wars that various state and party organs…
From Kripo to SiPo, the Nazification of German Detectives
The Kriminalpolitzei, known as Kripo, was the German equivalent of the British CID. It began in Prussia in the 1790s with six plainclothes detectives tasked to investigate serious crimes. Over the 19th…
Philipp Bouhler, Hitler’s Mailman
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 today, such things were common…
Wilhelm Frick: The Man Who Nazified Germany
Frick was many things to the Nazi party. As one of their earliest members of parliament he drafted legislation which would eventually become the Nuremberg Laws. Frick was also the…
How Far Is Too Far For An Artist?
Charles Krafft's response to the charge that he's a Holocaust denier raises the question of how audiences respond to artists they once admired once their opinions go round the twist.…