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World War II
July 25, 2017
Christian Lorentzen
Dunkirk
Manages to Make War Boring
Christopher Nolan's latest offering is high on patriotic schmaltz and low on meaningful commentary.
March 6, 2017
Jessica Loudis
The Third Reich Was Addicted to Drugs
At the start of the war, Hitler suffered from gas. Soon, he was taking a cocktail of morphine, crystal meth, and laxatives, a new history reveals.
February 1, 2017
Jo Livingstone
Raptures of the Deep
The mysterious appeal of a really good shark movie.
January 26, 2017
Jo Livingstone
Grave New World
Why "Nineteen Eighty-Four" is not the book we need in the Trump era.
August 3, 2016
Malcolm Harris
China Miéville’s Surrealist World War II
In 'The Last Days of New Paris' avant-garde artists fight the Nazis.
July 5, 2016
Manu Braganca
The Curious History of
Mein Kampf
in France
Before publishing a new edition of Adolf Hitler’s book, this French publishing house will set the record straight.
May 12, 2016
Emma Foehringer Merchant
Should We Respond to Climate Change Like We Did to WWII?
The controversial theory of "climate mobilization" says we should.
April 27, 2016
Malcolm Harris
Who’s Afraid of Communism?
Americans have largely forgotten the anti-Communist sentiment from decades past.
April 5, 2016
Randall Peffer
The Hunt for the Last U-boat
How a group of divers found a piece of history.
April 5, 2016
Daniel Solomon
The Many Trials of a Nazi War Criminal
Concentration camp guard John Demjanjuk was tried for a crime he didn't commit, before his true role in the Holocaust was exposed.
March 31, 2016
Gavin Jacobson
Under the Protection of Holy Sisters
A Jewish refugee in occupied France, Moritz Scheyer was sheltered by nuns.
December 15, 2015
Gavin Jacobson
Primo Levi, Mountain Rebel
Levi's experience as a partisan—and the execution of two teenage boys—showed him humans' capacity for extreme violence.
December 11, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
Was C.S. Lewis a secret government agent during World War II?
December 7, 2015
Jeet Heer
Erick Erickson has a peculiar understanding of World War II.
September 29, 2015
Despina Stratigakos
The Secrets of Hitler’s Vacation Homes
The Nazis created a wholesome, nature-loving image for Hitler at his mountain retreats. We've never fully dismissed it.
May 18, 2015
Steve Friess
A Liberator, But Never Free
October 21, 2014
Michael Kimmage
America's Most Elusive Military Hero Finally Gets His Due
Even his heroism was somehow private
June 24, 2014
The New Republic Staff
These Vintage Photos of Naked Soldiers Show the Intimate Side of War
June 18, 2014
David Thomson
'The Last Sentence' is a Holocaust Film with a Monstrous Hero
The acclaimed director of 'The Emigrants' and 'The New Land' returns with a powerful true story.
June 15, 2014
Michael Ignatieff
Stories of Life after the Shoah
Surviving after World War II—for victims and victors
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