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Holocaust
April 11, 2017
Graham Vyse
Sean Spicer’s rolling Holocaust gaffe is the mother of all Holocaust gaffes.
April 3, 2017
Jacob Soll
The Revelatory Horror of The Zookeeper’s Wife
Director Niki Caro has made the first feminist Holocaust movie.
March 13, 2017
MagazineJeet Heer
Horrible Histories
The perils of comparing Trump to twentieth-century dictators.
January 27, 2017
Graham Vyse
Why doesn’t Trump’s Holocaust Remembrance Day statement mention Jews?
June 7, 2016
Malcolm Forbes
How to Prosecute a War Criminal
Philippe Sands's new book is both a family memoir and a gripping courtroom drama.
April 5, 2016
Daniel Solomon
The Many Trials of a Nazi War Criminal
Concentration camp guard John Demjanjuk was tried for a crime he didn't commit, before his true role in the Holocaust was exposed.
March 31, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
RIP, Imre Kertész.
February 17, 2016
Ethan Gates
Son of Saul: Not Just Another Holocaust Movie
Hungary’s Oscar nominee explores our cultural obsession with the Final Solution.
December 15, 2015
Gavin Jacobson
Primo Levi, Mountain Rebel
Levi's experience as a partisan—and the execution of two teenage boys—showed him humans' capacity for extreme violence.
November 20, 2015
Phoebe Maltz Bovy
The Problem with Comparing Syrian and Jewish Refugees
September 14, 2015
Gal Beckerman
Could Climate Change Cause Another Holocaust?
Timothy Snyder's new book identifies the conditions that allowed the Holocaust—conditions our society today shares
June 23, 2015
Madison Johnson
The Untouched Remains of a Pre-Holocaust Jewish Schoolhouse
May 21, 2015
Jochen Hellbeck
Ukraine Makes Amnesia the Law of the Land
Poroshenko wants his nation to forget its role in Nazi atrocities
October 31, 2014
Cynthia Ozick
There Were No Love Stories in Auschwitz. Is It Okay for a Novelist to Invent One?
April 6, 2014
Adam Thirlwell
The Greatest Ex-Nazi Writer
Never heard of Gottfried Benn? It's because of his politics
March 8, 2014
Saul Friedlander
How a Pope Helped Mussolini Rise to Power
And tried to stop him before it was too late
March 4, 2014
Marc Tracy
What the Crisis in Ukraine Means for Its 70,000 Jews
February 25, 2014
Marc Tracy
In Which the Israeli Prime Minister Gives the German Chancellor a Hitler Mustache
Awkward! But not for the reason you think.
January 16, 2014
Marc Tracy
“Nazi” Is a Bad Word. Banning It in Israel Would Be Worse.
September 25, 2013
Marc Tracy
Hassan Rouhani Is Still a Holocaust Denier

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