Today In History: January 27th, 1945. The Liberation of Auschwitz
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 hospital for the treatment of…
Review: Ian Kershaw’s To Hell and Back. A New Warning From History
Professor Ian Kershaw, best known for his landmark two-volume biography of Adolf Hitler (titled Hubris and Nemesis) takes on a gargantuan project in To Hell and Back: Europe 1914-1949, a…
Do We Still Need Stories About the Nazis?
A negative review of the movie The Book Thief posed the question this way: When I reviewed 12 Years A Slave, which is based on the true story of a free black man who…