Like the rock and roll revolution of the 1950s, which shocked staid white audiences with translations of black rhythm and…
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The remarkable all-female flying team that helped defeat the Nazis – with wooden planes
Andrei Linde (Credit: Andrei Linde) A new episode of the BBC’s History’s Secret Heroes podcast focuses on the Night Witches,…
When Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German Pastor, Theorized How Stupidity Enabled the Rise of the Nazis (1942)
Two days after Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, the Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer took to the airwaves. Before his…
How the Nazis Waged War on Modern Art: Inside the “Degenerate Art” Exhibition of 1937
Before his fateful entry into politics, Adolf Hitler wanted to be an artist. Even to the most neutral imaginable observer,…