Vermeer’s masterpiece and many other important artworks survived Nazi looting and destruction with the help of hideaways and some clever diplomacy. By Nina Siegal Reporting from The Hague At first it ...
In the German legend, Faust signs a contract with the devil, exchanging his immortal soul for vast knowledge and other earthly rewards. It's a cut-and-dried transaction. In Daniel Kehlmann's new novel ...
The names of nearly half a million people suspected of collaborating with the Nazis during their occupation of the Netherlands have been published online for the first time, 80 years after the end of ...
In July 1937, artist Marc Chagall discovered that his paintings were enjoying a star turn in a singularly unexpected venue — an exhibition organized by the Nazi Party in Munich, the birthplace of its ...
Up to 450,000 Poles served in the Wehrmacht, the armed forces of Nazi Germany, during World War II. For years, they were viewed in Poland as traitors. But as an exhibition in Gdansk shows, the truth ...
This article was originally published on Moment Magazine. Music, at its core, is freedom. It cannot be caged by ideology or controlled by propaganda. The Nazis understood that, which is why they tried ...
Except “none of that is true,” writes Jonathan Wiesen, Ph.D., professor and past chair of UAB’s Department of History in “Nazi Germany: Society, Culture and Politics,” a new book from Bloomsbury Press ...