Marc Bloch: a warning from Europe’s past
According to Emmanuel Macron, the best analysis of the dangers facing the continent today comes from a French historian who…
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Why we can’t escape Nazi comparisons
As Gary Lineker shows, the Second World War has become Britain’s reference point for good vs evil.
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Martin Wolf: “Austerity and Brexit made everything worse”
The chief economics commentator of the Financial Times reflects on the failures of globalisation and how the UK became the…
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From the NS archive: Brüning and Hitler
19 December 1931: The future Führer is manoeuvred to the edge of German politics.
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My friend, the man who tried to kill Hitler
The would-be assassin Axel von dem Bussche was subject to the same pressures of guilt and shame that condition all…
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Why Putin’s war in Ukraine turned into a military disaster
The Russian president is a prisoner of his own delusions – and the similarities with Hitler are hard to ignore.
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Why Neville Chamberlain will forever be discredited by his policy of appeasement
A new Netflix film, based on Robert Harris’s novel, attempts to rehabilitate the former prime minister – but his legacy…
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