Tag: Nazis

In 1935, a group of New York communists boarded a German luxury liner during a lavish sending-off party attended by celebrities, Rockefellers, and Roosevelts. Their goal: capture the swastika.

Angora rabbit fur is fluffy, and silky, and was especially popular with two influential 20th-century groups: Hollywood starlets and Nazi officers.  

Like many non-religious Jews of my generation, I naively assumed Nazism could never rise — and hurt us — again.

One of the first decisions any tourist had to make when crossing the German border in the mid-1930s was whether or not to “Heil Hitler.”

A new study shows that knowledge about the Holocaust is dangerously at an all-time low.

Emily Meg Weinstein considers the ways in which her grandfather’s less than heroic choices in love and war led to her existence.

The Nazi next door is still a Nazi.

A black mother wrestles with having to explain the violence in Charlottesville to her six-year-old daughter.

Some tech companies are taking a stand against neo-Nazi users, but claim it’s a still dangerous decision to make.

Kevin Wheatcroft, a man in Leicestershire, England, has amassed the world’s largest collection of Nazi memorabilia.

Travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor recalls his most dangerous journey.

The story of the Nazis’ only concentration camp for women has long been obscured—partly by chance, but also by historians’ apathy towards women’s history. Sarah Helm writes about the camp, where the “cream of Europe’s women” were interned alongside its prostitutes, and members of the French resistance perished alongside Red Army prisoners of war.

During World War II Hemingway organized a private spy network, which he jokingly called the Crook Factory, and gathered information about Nazi sympathizers on the island. But in a secret, 124-page report on Hemingway, the FBI—which feared his personal prestige and political power—expressed resentment at his amateur but alarming intrusion into their territory, and unsuccessfully […]

The story of Hollywood screenwriter Budd Schulberg’s unlikely collaboration with Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl.

“The Tragedy of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Hans von Dohnanyi.” — Elisabeth Sifton and Fritz Stern, New York Review of Books More from NYRB