Germany

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  9/14/19
  

  There Are No Nostalgic Nazi Memorials

  by Susan Neiman

  Americans could learn from how drastically German society has moved away from the nadir of its history.

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• 9/15/19
  

  Celebrating the 200th Birthday of Prince Albert

  by Seán Williams

  This year historians, tourists, and a fair few locals will be celebrating in Schloss Roseau. Why?

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• 9/15/19
  

  The Stasi's Cold War Espionage Campaign Inside the Church

  by Elisabeth Braw

  How the Stasi infiltrated churches to suppress dissent in the German Democratic Republic.

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• 9/15/19
  

  Autocrats do not need a majority to destroy democracy. A divided opposition helps them.

  by Claudia Koonz

  Trump is not a despot. But neither were Mussolini and Hitler early on.

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• SOURCE: Time
  9/6/19
  

  If We Want to Address the Crisis of Veteran Suicide, We Must Acknowledge Its History

  by Simon Harold Walker

  The growing issue of veteran suicide and how to solve it rarely focuses on the history of the problem.

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• 9/8/19
  

  1933 May Be Closer than We Think

  by Frank Domurad

  Increasing cultural, social and political continuities between Weimar and America should give us serious concern in assessing the fate of these two democracies as part of an analogous historical phenomenon.

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• SOURCE: Reuters
  8/31/19
  

  Germany asks for forgiveness as Poland marks 80th anniversary of World War II

  Germany’s president asked for forgiveness for his country on Sunday for the suffering of the Polish people during World War Two as Poland marked 80 years since the Nazi German invasion that unleashed the deadliest conflict in human history.

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• SOURCE: AP
  8/25/19
  

  Paris celebrates its liberation from Nazis, 75 years on

  Paris celebrated the American soldiers, French Resistance fighters and others who liberated the City of Light from Nazi occupation exactly 75 years ago on Sunday, unleashing an eruption of kissing, dancing, tears and gratitude.

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• 8/25/19
  

  Devil's Bargain: The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact 80 Years Later

  by David Carlin

  Eighty years ago, two dictators agreed to divide up Eastern Europe. Their agreement would change the lives of millions.

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• 7/28/19
  

  Racism in America: What We Can Learn from Germany’s Struggle with Its Own Evil History

  by James Thornton Harris

  If slavery is the "interstate highway system of the American past," it has yet to appear on the cultural road map of most Americans. 

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• 7/28/19
  

  White Nationalists and the Legacy of the Waffen-SS from Postwar Europe to Today

  by Adrian Gilbert

  Recently there has been a trend to rehabilitate Waffen-SS veterans from Eastern European countries and to reconsider them as patriots rather than agents of Nazi tyranny. 

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• SOURCE: 60 Minutes
  6/30/19
  

  Video of the Week: What the last Nuremberg prosecutor alive wants the world to know

  More than 70 years ago, Ben Ferencz became the chief prosecutor of 22 commanders of the Einsatzgruppen Nazi death squads at trial number 9 at Nuremberg. Now 99 years old, he's the last Nuremberg prosecutor alive today.

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• 6/23/19
  

  On the 100th Anniversary of the Treaty of Versailles, It's Time to Reexamine Its Legacy.

  by David Carlin

  Versailles did not destroy the German economy, make Germany into a permanent pariah, or inspire the German lust for revenge. Instead, the Nazis capitalized on a unique economic calamity (the Great Depression), German political instability, and deep seated radical nationalist currents.

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• 6/2/19
  

  Depicting the Devil: How Propaganda Posters Portrayed Nazi Ideology

  by Albinko Hasic

  The poster became a cheap transmitter of these various messages and combined visual arts with psychological methods to incessantly repeat Nazi ideologies to the German public. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  4/15/19
  

  Has Germany Forgotten the Lessons of the Nazis?

  by Paul Hockenos

  The country’s culture of remembrance is crumbling.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  4/11/19
  

  Teaching the Holocaust in Germany as a Resurgent Far Right Questions It

  As those who lived through it are dying off, and some people claim it never happened, what will happen to sites of remembrance?

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• 3/17/19
  

  The Death of Appeasement: the 80th Anniversary of the Invasion of Prague

  by Yoav J. Tenembaum

  March 1939 was the real turning point in international relations. September 1939 was to be the climax.

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• 3/3/19
  

  Is Bernie Sanders Actually A Democratic Socialist?

  by Michael Sheng

  "For the sake of history, please tell your voters what you really believe, and don’t just throw out a label without a precise definition."

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• 3/10/19
  

  Hitler's Own Maginot Line

  by Robert Scott Kellner

  What the diary of a German against the Third Reich can teach us about the Atlantic Wall. 

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  2/20/19
  

  Rethinking Black History Month in Germany

  by Tiffany Florvil

  This year will mark the 30th anniversary of the annual Black History Month celebrations in Berlin, which became a fixture in the Black German community.