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  • The Two Nuernbergs

    Peter de Mendelssohn : History

    Awaiting trial for the Nazi atrocities were "twenty shabby men... a ragged, spiritless, motley crew of second-rate characters": Ribbentrop, Hiss, Göring...

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  • Wartime Lies

    Timothy Snyder : Cultural Criticism & Analysis

    As Nazis dropped bombs in Warsaw, poet Czeslaw Milosz wrote a collection of literary criticism that sought to trace the rise of totalitarianism by deconstructing the mythologies of Western modernity. Subscribe

  • Europa, Europa

    Charles S. Maier : Europe

    Tony Judt's Postwar, a massive summary of European public life since World War II, is a triumph of narrative that will allow readers familiar with the history to experience it again.

  • The Ring Cycle

    Gerald Early : Sports

    When Joe Louis defeated Nazi sympathizer Max Schmeling in 1938, it was the boxing match that reverberated across the world. Three new books chronicle the match and all the racial and political turmoil of which it was an emblem.

  • Nationalism's Psychotic Side

    Robert Scheer : Germany

    Even decent people can be swept along by barbarism when a nation gets sick.

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