When growing up in his native Austria, Hitler was very close to his mother, Klara (pair pictured above). He would later write that her death - from breast cancer in 1907 - 'hardened' him.
The lessons to learn are: avoid war, and the drum-beating that precedes it. And avoid technocratic utopian groupthink; avoid ideologies masquerading as science. The Nazi Hunger Plan was devised by an ...
Trump’s Oval Office Spectacle: When Power Becomes a Stage for Humiliation.
The slow, seemingly piecemeal march of American dictatorship is trampling colleges and law firms and coming for the rest of ...
Georgy Zhukov was Stalin’s top general. During World War II, he led the Red Army from victory to victory, but when peace ...
In a time when the chaos of news-by-the-minute assaults the senses of those who yearn for perspective and analysis, it can be instructive to look back to April 1945, a month that gave the world 30 ...
Henry Kissinger was US Secretary of State from 1973 to 1977. He died at the age of 100 on 29 November 2023 in Kent, ...
As socialists we must espouse a truly internationalist politics, one that supports democratic and working-class movements around the world. We support such movements in their struggles against ...
The Soviet Union might seem the last place that the art duo Gilbert & George would achieve success. Yet as the communist regime collapsed, that’s precisely what happened. @StephenSmithWDS wonders how ...
Journalists accurately reported that the führer was a “Little Man” whom the whole world was laughing at. It didn’t matter.