Dear Ben Carson,
Dear Ben Carson, When I get mad, I tell myself I shouldn't post on the blog. I should take a walk, hum a little tune, think of 2001: A Space…
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…
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…
Gays and Lesbians In the Third Reich
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…
Review: The Wonderful Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl
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…