How much did World War II German soldiers know about the Holocaust? Publicly, many of them denied knowledge. But a long-lost cache of secret recordings that the British intelligence service made of ...

With its cult of destruction and self-sacrifice, national socialism might have been designed for adolescence; Nazi party members indulged Teutonic pagan myths and sub-Wagnerian kitsch. Symbols ...

Harald Welzer is a professor of transformation design at the University of Flensburg, teaches social psychology at the University of Sankt Gallen, and is head of the foundation Futurzwei. He is the co ...

Whenever an atrocity is committed, our instinctive reaction is to find out what motivated the perpetrator. Whether it is a lone gunman going on the rampage at a university campus, or a suicide bomber ...

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Historians often dream of being able to eavesdrop on history, but few can hope to obtain such spectacularly direct access as that presented in this major addition to the literature on the second world ...

When the reporter Martha Gellhorn travelled across Germany to the Nuremberg trials in 1946, she was struck by the universal denials of those she met. Everyone knew someone who had been a Nazi, but no ...