1+ hour, 21+ min ago   (273+ words) On this day, as we watch Elon Musk celebrate his work to push the AfD party into restoring Nazi power over Germany, we remember eighty-four years ago the Gestapo arrived in Preil, an Prussian fishing village, and arrested Mildred Fish-Harnack…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago   (620+ words) Germany’s war was lost by December 1941. And yet, Hitler refused to stop killing, sending millions to death. Who and how? That’s the lesson. The Wehrmacht stalled at Moscow, the United States entered, and the economic arithmetic that Adam Tooze later…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (305+ words) There is an interesting history to a French announcement that resistance to the Nazi occupation would be recognized. Eighty years of official French memory was cynically mismanaged to celebrate the Resistance without celebrating the people who actually conducted armed operations…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (761+ words) People sometimes ask me “can you believe the AfD is getting votes in the suburbs of Berlin?” Yes, I can believe the Nazi party is getting votes again. And here’s just one reason why. The words and framing of this…...

3+ mon, 5+ day ago   (445+ words) “Get that car’s license plate number!” Let’s cut the propaganda and speak plain English for a moment, because the actual first functional computers were not made in Germany. And what was the birth? What new principle was brought into this…...