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How Vladimir Putin Helped ‘Nazify’ Modern Germany

by Longreads July 6, 2022October 11, 2022

Rainer Sonntag was a far-right vigilante. He was also a Communist spy.

Posted inFeature, Featured, Nonfiction, Story, Uncategorized

Remembering the Things That Remain

by Amos Barshad January 29, 2020December 30, 2022

A Polish artist invites a journalist to dig into disturbing remnants from the Holocaust that Poland would rather keep buried.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Lovers in Auschwitz, Reunited 72 Years Later. He Had One Question.

by Sari Botton December 12, 2019October 19, 2022

The heart-warming story of Holocaust survivors David Wisnia and Helen Spitzer, young lovers at Auschwitz, who got to meet one last time before she died at 100 last year. At the meeting, “Zippi,” as she was known then, revealed she’d used her position as a privileged inmate and a graphic designer at the camp five […]

Posted inNonfiction

When Newspapers Cover the Private Lives of Nazis

by Matt Giles November 30, 2017October 19, 2022

Ordinary details can furnish a room, they can set a table, they can fill the time between hushed meetings of planned genocide.

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