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Czech Village Razed by Hitler at Heart of Row on Truth and History

Lidice’s survivors hit back at claims that Jewish woman was denounced to Nazis as academics resign over state interference.

Nazis' Sobibor Death Camp Photos May Feature John Demjanjuk, Historians Say

Historians have presented a collection of photos kept by the deputy commander of the Nazis’ Sobibor death camp that they say appears to include images of John Demjanjuk, the retired Ohio auto worker who was tried in Germany for his alleged time as a Sobibor guard.

NASA Renames Object After Uproar Over Old Name’s Nazi Connotations

Scientists said an object four billion miles from Earth would be given a Native American name: Arrokoth. Its previous, informal name, Ultima Thule, had links to the Third Reich.

'I Shall Never Forget the Kindness.' How England Helped Albert Einstein Escape Nazi Germany

by Andrew Robinson

Einstein was widely thought to be public enemy number one of the Nazis.

The Nazi Census and a Quiet Hero

by Dwight Harshbarger

The census and discrimination from Nazi Germany to today. 

There Are No Nostalgic Nazi Memorials

by Susan Neiman

Americans could learn from how drastically German society has moved away from the nadir of its history.

There Are No Nostalgic Nazi Memorials in Germany

by Susan Neiman

Americans could learn from how drastically German society has moved away from the nadir of its history.

Depicting the Devil: How Propaganda Posters Portrayed Nazi Ideology

by Albinko Hasic

The poster became a cheap transmitter of these various messages and combined visual arts with psychological methods to incessantly repeat Nazi ideologies to the German public. 

Revisiting The American Nazi Supporters of "A Night at the Garden"

by Margaret Talbot

One advantage to living through Trumpism is that it has compelled a reckoning with aspects of our country’s past that, for a long time, many Americans preferred not to acknowledge.

Uffizi Prods Germans to Return Painting Stolen in World War II

A German family has the artwork, and refuses to give it back. The Italian museum has mounted a publicity campaign in an effort to get German authorities to intervene.

A College Student Was Told To Remove A "F**k Nazis" Sign Because It Wasn't "Inclusive"

"This email tells me the university cares more about the feelings of Nazis than the safety of their students."

Germany Agrees to Compensate Survivors Who Fled From Nazis as Children

The New York-based Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany said the government had agreed to payments of 2,500 euros ($2,800) to those still alive from among the 10,000 people who fled on the so-called “Kindertransport.”

Five Countries Slow to Address Nazi-Looted Art, U.S. Expert Says

An estimated 600,000 paintings had been stolen during the war and 100,000 remain missing.

Suit Accuses Dutch Museums of Holding On to Nazi-Tainted Art

Throughout World War II, the Dutch art dealers Benjamin and Nathan Katz sold art they owned, but three generations of the Katz family have argued that their actions were made under duress and have fought for decades to regain possession of scores of works transferred during the war.

Justin Trudeau apology to Canadian Jews for turning away the desperate refugees of the St. Louis in 1939

Hundreds died in Nazi death camps.

This Is Where Antisemitism Leads

by Robert Scott Kellner

What a German diary from the Nazi era teaches us.

Historian Christopher Browning on the Trump regime: We’re “close to the point of no return”

A scholar of the Nazi period explains why fake news may be a more powerful authoritarian tool than secret police.

Russian historians use Nazi photo to locate Stalin-era mass graves

Soviet secret police covered up its executions by planting trees over killing fields in Moscow’s forested Kommunarka area.

Christopher Browning, a leading Holocaust historian, just compared the US to Nazi Germany

“If the US has someone whom historians will look back on as the gravedigger of American democracy, it is Mitch McConnell.”

The Nazi Downstairs: A Jewish Woman’s Tale of Hiding in Her Home

A search for a lost masterpiece uncovered a woman’s harrowing account of escaping deportation, and possibly death, while spying on a Nazi at close range.