Harald Jähner’s “Vertigo” recaptures and endorses the era’s spirit of modern excess, and argues that it could have lasted.
In July 1926, the Illustrated Observer published a spread that included eight large photographs of a Nazi rally held in the town of Weimar. It included one photo that was taken with a wide-angle ...
VERTIGO: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany, by Harald Jähner. Translated by Shaun Whiteside. For nearly a century, the Weimar Republic has served as the West’s compact mirror, pundits ...
left Germany and the collapsed Weimar Republic on a forged passport. From 1934 to 1948, he found refuge in Palestine under the British Mandate—not as a Zionist but as a political exile.
LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION!: Creator, writer and director Hank Handloegten traveled more than 3000 miles from Germany to Bowdoin ...
Though remarkably successful and enduring, NATO has always had internal tensions to manage. Every new member brings new ...
As a result of the November Revolution of 1918, Germany’s constitutional monarchy was replaced by parliamentary democracy. Throughout its entire existence, the Weimar Republic, named after the town ...
Donald Trump's disdain for the rule of law is obvious, and the damage he plans to do to it is evident in his own words.
Author David Alan Johnson discusses his new book, Admiral Canaris: How Hitler’s Chief of Intelligence Betrayed the Nazis. It ...
David James writes, Many Americans often exercise willful blindness to our ugly past and cannot grasp the comparisons.
The Senate Democratic Caucus says Republican Sen. Wendy Rogers drafted a letter with an Arizona Senate letterhead, endorsing ...