Click Here to Read: The New York Times’ first article about Hitler’s rise is absolutely stunning updated by Zack Beauchamp on the Vox website on March 3, 2016.
Click Here to Read: New Popular Idol Rises in Bavaria by Cyril Brown in The New York Times on Novmber 11, 1922.
Adolf Hitler, circa 1922.(Imagno/Getty Images)
Click Here to Read: The real reason Donald Trump is winning: No one thought it was possible. Political science said Trump would lose. Did GOP elites trust the theory so much they forgot to do anything to make it come true? By Daniel W. Drezner in the Washington Posts February 26, 2015.
Donald Trump at a rally in Nevada just before he won the caucuses there. Did GOP elites fail to stop him because they thought they didn’t have to? (EPA/MIKE NELSON)
Click Here to Read: Why Is Sanders Taking Foreign Policy Advice from Someone Who Suggested Israel—not Assad—gassed Syrians? The Democratic presidential hopeful set out to assuage doubts about his foreign policy expertise. Instead, he may have reinforced them By Yair Rosenberg on the Tablet website on February 24, 2016
Click Here to Read: The rise of American authoritarianism: A niche group of political scientists may have uncovered what’s driving Donald Trump’s ascent. What they found has implications that go well beyond 2016 by Amanda Taub on the Vox.com website on March 1, 2016.
Gage Skidmore, Photoillustration: Javier Zarracina/Vox
Click Here to Read: Historian Who Shed Light on WWII Massacres Goes From Honoree to ‘Pole Hater’ Prof. Jan Tomasz Gross was once revered for his work detailing the inconvenient truth that some Poles were responsible for massacring Jews. Today’s Poland, Gross told Haaretz, must come to terms with the past through intensive soul-searching by Ofer Aderet on the Ha’artz website on March 1, 2016.
Click Here to Read: Victor Klemperer: “I am German, the Others Are Un-German”: The Nazis made Victor Klemperer’s life a living hell. Baptized Christian but of Jewish descent, Hitler’s henchmen labeled him “un-German.” In a bizarre twist of fate, Klemperer could essentially thank a catastrophe — the bombing of Dresden sixty years ago — for saving him from the terror of the Nazi regime on the Spiegel Online website on February 11, 2005.
Image of Victor Klemperer from the zakhor-online.com website
Click Here to Read: This Day in Jewish History 1941: The Dutch Strike Against Nazi Abuses of Jews: Following the roundup of Jews, Amsterdam’s tram drivers went on strike – and were followed by the rest of the populace by David B. Green on the Ha’Aretz website on Februar 25, 2016.
A German motorcycle rider talking with a Dutch peasant woman, at an unknown location in Holland, May 24, 1940.AP
