Two Sides

It sounds so reasonable, so grown up. It seems such a mature and balanced position to adopt.

The Poison Of Thinly Veiled Antisemitism

In his short novel Holy Week A Novel of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, first published in Polish in 1945, Andrzejewski Jerzy tells the story of Jan and Anna Malecki’s attempt to shelter Jan’s Jewish friend Irena Lilien in Gentile Warsaw during the Jewish uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto in the spring of 1943.

Nazism And Terrence Malick’s “Badlands”

… and now for something completely different… or maybe not that different.

Scholars Speak On The Culture Debate In Canada’s Election

587 concerned Canadian academics have signed an open letter warning of the danger they perceive in a shift they see in the current Canadian Federal election to focus attention on a particular religious practice.

The Dark Blank Impossible Mystery

Magda Goebbels had seven children.

“Steered Thinking”

Werner Otto Müller-Hill was a German military judge in Germany during the Second World War. Between 1933 and 1945, the German military courts condemned to death as many as 33,000 German soldiers and prisoners of war.

Nazi Resistance #3

Helmuth von Moltke’s third factor in German society between 1933 and 1945 contributing to the failure of resistance the Nazis is a stern warning to any human community that hopes to prosper.

Nazi Resistance #3a

Among the tools that kill communication are arrogance, aggression and belligerence.

Nazi Resistance #2

In his second characteristic of German society under Nazi domination that made it profoundly challenging to mount any kind of effective opposition to Hitler, Moltke paints an intimate picture of domestic life for the average German between 1933 and 1945.

Nazi Resistance #1

It is too easy to sit in judgment on people who find themselves in difficult situations the complexities of which we who have never faced such circumstances can barely imagine.