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World War II
May 4, 2014
David Thomson
The Best World War II Documentary Was Faked
But that doesn't make it any worse
April 23, 2014
Tikhon Dzyadko
Putin Is Using WWII for Propaganda Because It's the Best Memory That Russia Has
April 2, 2014
Ali Wyne
The World Is Much Safer Than 20th-Century Historians Would Have You Believe
February 7, 2014
Liel Leibovitz
War Movies Used to be Big, Sprawling Things. What Happened?
The trend of small-minded war movies continues
February 6, 2014
David Thomson
Clooney's 'The Monuments Men' Is Dreadful, Smug, and Incoherent
February 4, 2014
Adam Kirsch
Germans Make a Sympathetic TV Series about WWII. What Could Go Wrong?
The well-intentioned, deeply troubling hear of "Generation War"
October 3, 2013
Ben Crair
Six Shutdown Victims You Don't Have to Feel Sorry For
July 13, 2013
Christopher Caldwell
When Evil Was a Social System
The moral burdens of living under communist rule in Eastern Europe
June 29, 2013
David Thomson
'In the Fog': What Life Is Like Under Occupation
June 10, 2013
Alex Heard
The Lost Boys
The story of WWII deserters
May 7, 2013
Thomas Rogers
German War Guilt: The Miniseries
The country's breakout television series confronts WWII atrocities head on
April 18, 2013
Glen Weldon
A Superman for All Seasons
The Man of Steel is 75. His biography is our history.
March 13, 2013
Jed Perl
When the Surrealists Met the Nazis
Picasso, Paris, and modern art in Vichy France
June 14, 1999
Sherwin B. Nuland
The Nazis Were on a Mission To Eliminate Cancer—For Their Own Sick Purposes
February 17, 1986
Primo Levi
Primo Levi's Heartbreaking, Heroic Answers to the Most Common Questions He Was Asked About "Survival in Auschwitz"
June 8, 1974
Richard Lee Strout
Remembering D-Day
December 25, 1944
Bruce Bliven Jr.
A Soldier’s Vivid, Candid Diary of What It Was Like to Fight in World War II
June 26, 1944
Richard Lee Strout
Two Fronts: Normandy and England
June 19, 1944
The New Republic Staff
The New Republic’s Original D-Day Issue, in Its Entirety
June 19, 1944
Richard Lee Strout, Michael Young
D-Day
Two reports from London on a historic day in world history.

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