Hitler at Home
How the “genial Bavarian” version of Adolf Hitler became a global media celebrity, “a plain-living gentleman with a soft spot for dogs and children.”
How the “genial Bavarian” version of Adolf Hitler became a global media celebrity, “a plain-living gentleman with a soft spot for dogs and children.”
Despina Stratigakos Places Journal Sep 2015 35min Permalink
On a book of photographs shot by Leni Riefenstahl in the 1950s and 1960s depicting an African tribe.
Susan Sontag New York Review of Books Feb 1975 35min Permalink
How the Third Reich was founded on a conspiracy theory.
Richard J. Evans London Review of Books May 2014 20min Permalink
Rethinking Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil.
Mark Lilla New York Review of Books Nov 2013 15min Permalink
The conspiracy theories surrounding the 1931 death of Hitler’s niece and object of affection.
Ron Rosenbaum Vanity Fair Apr 1992 55min Permalink
All violence is not like all other violence. Every Jewish death is not like every other Jewish death. To believe otherwise is to revive the old typological thinking about Jewish history, according to which every enemy of the Jews is the same enemy, and there is only one war, and it is a war against extinction, and it is a timeless war.
Leon Wieseltier The New Republic May 2002 15min Permalink
Arnold Weiss escaped Germany as a kid in 1938, leaving his family behind. He returned seven years later, now a U.S. intelligence officer tasked with tracking down fugitive Nazis. The ultimate revenge story.
Matthew Brzezinski Washington Post Jul 2005 35min Permalink
The few who got to view Jerry Lewis’s notorious The Day the Clown the Cried, set at Auschwitz, piece together memories of their surreal personal screenings.
Bruce Handy Spy May 1992 Permalink