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Gays and Lesbians In the Third Reich

By jim_snowden July 19, 2013History

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 homosexuals not only successfully pressed…

Block Wardens: The Eyes and Ears of the Gestapo

By jim_snowden July 15, 2013History1 Comment

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: 40,000 agents and staff to…

Reinhard Heydrich: The Young Evil God of Death

By jim_snowden July 1, 2013History3 Comments

Like all the most ambitious people, Reinhard Heydrich was a collector of titles: SS Obergruppenfuehrer, Head of the SD, Head of the Prussian Gestapo, Head of Gestapo for the Reich,…

Review: The Wonderful Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl

By jim_snowden April 29, 2013Uncategorized

Leni Riefenstahl's life, to whatever degree it was horrible or wonderful, will always be linked with her direction of two films for the Third Reich: Olympia and The Triumph of the Will. What…

The Summer of Long Knives Playlist

By jim_snowden April 20, 2013Music, Writing

I write to music. I've never conducted any sort of survey to see how common that is among fiction writers, but I do it. The rhythm keeps me moving when…