The Tegernsee, Heinrich Himmler, and the Night of the Long Knives
The Tegernsee proves once again that, whatever else one might think of the Nazi leadership, they had taste in real estate. A picturesque lake south of Munich, framed by mountains…
Was There A Nazi Personality?
One of my Facebook friends posted about a book that led to my thinking about this issue. Here's the exchange: Now I'd like to revise and extend my remarks…
Louis vs. Schmeling I: June 19th, 1936
Louis vs. Schmeling was hardly the first time race and racism mattered in boxing (see Jack Johnson, among others), and it wouldn't be the last. But the stakes both in…
Marriage In The Third Reich
Because the building of a pure, highly populous Aryan racial community was central to the Nazi gospel, the Nazis were obsessed with driving women out of the professions and into…