No. Hitler Was Not A Genius
Over last weekend, I became embroiled in a conversation about Adolf Hitler--an occupational hazard--that included this question, directed at me, "Do you think Hitler was a genius?" No. To revise…
The Day Hitler Became Chancellor
80 years ago yesterday, Adolf Hitler, the strange Austrian who headed a movement that combined violent thugs with some of Germany's leading industrialists, was sworn in as Chancellor of Germany.…
The Goebbels Diaries
The quote in the last post from Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels on the Louis/Schmeling fight was one I remembered from The Goebbels Experiment, a documentary made by First Run Features (who also…
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…