From George Eliot to Neo-Nazi Skinheads: The Chaotic Cult of Richard Wagner
WAGNERISM Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music By Alex Ross For Friedrich Nietzsche he was “a volcanic eruption of the total undivided artistic...
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A Secret Diary Chronicled the ‘Satanic World’ That Was Dachau
The final article from “Beyond the World War II We Know,” a series by The Times that documents lesser-known stories from the war, remembers Edgar...
Miami Herald Editor Apologizes for ‘Racist and Anti-Semitic’ Insert
The Miami Herald, one of the country’s largest newspapers, apologized on Monday for a column it called “incredibly offensive” that appeared last week in Libre,...
The Secret History of America’s Only WWII Refugee Camp
NY Refugees On Aug. 5, 1944, nearly a thousand Jewish refugees from Europe arrived in Oswego, N.Y. Photographs by Alfred Eisenstaedt/The LIFE Picture Collection, via...
The World War II You Don’t Know
Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. Some of the most enduring...
In the Second Volume of ‘Hitler,’ How a Dictator Invited His Own Downfall
The impulsiveness and grandiosity, the bullying and vulgarity, were obvious from the beginning; if anything, they accounted for Adolf Hitler’s anti-establishment appeal. For Germany’s unpopular...
Remembering Music’s Saving Powers at Auschwitz
The cello has accompanied Anita Lasker-Wallfisch through hell and back. At age 17, she played marches in Auschwitz while prisoners burned next door. Less than...
Museum’s Future Clouded by Chance Discovery: Swastika Hiding in Plain Sight
JESTEBURG, Germany — In 1911, the Swiss artist Johann Bossard came across an empty property in the grasslands near this small town south of Hamburg....
The Doctor From Nazi Germany and the Roots of the Hunt for Life on Mars
When Penelope Boston was a student at the University of Colorado in the 1980s, she wanted to create a miniature Mars and see how some...
Young, in Love and Trying to Bring Down the Third Reich
THE BOHEMIANS The Lovers Who Led Germany’s Resistance Against the NazisBy Norman Ohler Vergangenheitsbewältigung is an amalgamation of the German words Vergangenheit, “the past,” and...