Why was classical music so important to Hitler and Goebbels? The stories of Jewish cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, who survived Auschwitz, and of star conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler, who worked with the Nazis, provide […]
By Tom Fowdy, Oxford University It is worth remembering that in both World War I and World II one of the biggest long term factors contributing to Germany’s defeat was the fact […]
Historian Olivette Otele explores the untold story of a black regiment in World War One.
On this day in 1936 Jesse Owens won the 100m at the Berlin Olympics. Adolph Hitler opens the Games. Jesse Owens wins the 100 metres. Shot of the crowd at the stadium […]
Women in Nazi Germany were expected to be housewives and mothers. Women, like Sophie Scholl, who resisted the system and these roles paid with their lives. When the National Socialists led by […]
The stories about Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks and Muhammad Ali are well known. But how accurate are they? Often the retelling of the civil rights movement is neutered by misrepresentations […]
Few Nazis were as notorious and gruesome as doctor Josef Mengele. But who was Mengele and how did he manage to disappear after WWII until his death in 1979? After the end […]
Musician Wolf Biermann played his guitar and sang about the inadequacies of the GDR. In 1976, he was expelled from Communist East Germany. He had long viewed the “Workers’ and Peasants’ State” […]
The Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu allowed people of German descent to leave for Germany during the Cold War – in return for money. This secret trade cost the German government billions and […]
Founder of Black Lives Matter Sacramento chapter Tanya Faison was among those who attended the rally. Fifty years after the Black Panther Party “came into the Capitol and they came in with […]
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