Nazism

A new study of Adolf Eichmann, true Nazi believer and proud of it, confirms the extent to which Hannah Arendt got him totally wrong.

Jennifer Schuessler
Sept. 4 2014 12:01AM

Theories abound, but in the end only one war aim mattered to history’s greatest single suicide bomber, the man who blew up Europe to kill its Jews.

Ron Rosenbaum
July 14 2014 12:01AM

The 1940 Nazi invasion of France turned the country’s classical-music scene into a mix of the good, the bad, and the ugly.

Benjamin Ivry
March 11 2014 12:01AM

Neither Nazism nor Bolshevism would have been conceivable without the disaster that was World War I.  

Feb. 28 2014 12:01AM

The close kinship between two modern political movements puts paid to the conventional idea that one of them, Nazism, is a more extreme form of conservatism. 

Daniel Hannan
Feb. 27 2014 12:01AM

To the philosopher Martin Heidegger, as to the Nazis he supported, the German spirit lay under mortal threat of “Jewification” by “Semitic nomads.” 

Robert Zaretsky
Feb. 18 2014 12:01AM

The Polish Home Army’s 1944 revolt against the Nazis was a heroic effort, savagely suppressed; but it was not a fight for democracy, and it. . .

Jan. 31 2014 12:00AM

Even as the Roosevelt administration adamantly refused to divert military resources to the rescue of Jews from Nazi-occupied Europe, it willingly committed them to the salvage of paintings.

Rafael Medoff
Jan. 30 2014 5:00AM

Israeli conservatives, themselves the victims of slanderous speech by the Left, should be the first to oppose a Knesset bill banning the use of the. . .

Dror Eydar
Jan. 24 2014 12:00AM

It’s no mystery why Dieudonné M’bala M’bala’s anti-Semitic gesture shares its name with a dumpling; what may be more puzzling is why it’s considered. . .

Jan. 21 2014 12:00AM

A new film, highly popular in Germany, perpetuates the fallacy that ordinary Germans were duped by the Nazis and ignorant of the extent of their crimes.

A. O. Scott
Jan. 16 2014 12:00AM

A British documentary of the extermination camps, edited by Alfred Hitchcock and now being restored for wide release, is a work of necessary historical significance,. . .

Richard Brody
Jan. 15 2014 12:00AM

As a superb new book demonstrates, it is a historical myth that Jews in modern Turkey prospered under the secular republic; nor was Turkey actually. . .

Harold Rhode
Jan. 13 2014 12:00AM

In 1937, William E. Dodd returned from a four-year tour as U.S. ambassador to Germany warning of the Nazi threat to the Jews and. . .

Michael Abramowitz
Jan. 13 2014 12:00AM