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German artist Georg Baselitz dies aged 88

Prominent contemporary visual artist explored range of techniques across six decades of work

The Guardian - UK

Jürgen Habermas obituary

Philosopher and social theorist who advocated a new direction for German thought after the horrors of Nazi rule

The Guardian - UK

How worried should we be that political leaders keep making oblique Nazi references?

Several high-profile political leaders have in recent months been seen apparently dabbling in Nazi allusions. In many cases, dog whistle messages send oblique signals to supporters. These are pitched at a frequency that most listeners can’t hear but are meaningful to those seeking confirmation of their own views.

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‘We wrote it living on Tesco sandwiches and anxiety attacks!’ How Operation Mincemeat conquered the world

It started out as a fringe musical about an outlandish war plan – and became a West End and Broadway smash. As the show hits China, Australia and Mexico, its ‘nerd’ creators explain how they went global with a box of hats and a dream

The Guardian - UK

How Germany's Nuremberg trial for Nazi crimes transformed international law

Eighty years ago, on 20 November, 1945, the historic trials of many leaders of the Nazi Third Reich began in Nuremberg, Germany, just months after the end of WWII. The exceptional procedure laid the foundations of a new international legal model to prosecute crimes against humanity.

Radio France Internationale

His research on autism was compassionate – how could Hans Asperger have collaborated with the Nazis?

The Vienna-based ‘father of neurodiversity’ was ahead of his time in his work but was also implicated in the Third Reich’s crimes. My novel set out to explore these contradictions

The Guardian - UK

New Dietrich Bonhoeffer biopic is a grossly misleading portrait of the anti-Nazi dissident

The complexities of history have always posed problems for commercial cinema. With rare exceptions, mainstream historical films tend to flatten the inconveniently irregular textures of individual biographies and their context into simpler templates of good and evil, valour and villainy.

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OPINION - Half the world seems to pity Melania Trump — they couldn't be more wrong

On a day which variously included Donald Trump promising to rename the Gulf of Mexico, virtually all of the January 6 rioters being released, and Elon Musk doing a gesture so reminiscent of the Third Reich that it was actually blurred on Australian and German television, it was a far…

Evening Standard

Is Trump actually a fascist – and why does the answer matter?

Given the comparisons to Hitler and Mussolini, experts say it’s important to remember that fascism is a process

The Guardian - US

Slashed painting owned by Stephen Fry’s mother tells chilling story of fleeing from Nazis

1920s canvas of Dutch woman, to be shown for first time at Holt festival, has slit from border guards’ bayonets

The Guardian - UK

Euro 2024 in a super election year: how the Olympic Stadium is putting Germany’s past front and centre

Germany is hosting the Uefa Euro 2024 men’s football tournament right in the middle of what has been called the country’s “super election year”. People are voting at local, state and European levels, amid renewed contests over Germany’s relationship with its Nazi past.

The Conversation

The AfD’s obsession with the Third Reich is driving a realignment of Europe’s far right

Marine Le Pen’s rupture with her German allies reveals a tactical fault line between the ‘old’ right and the ‘new’

The Guardian - UK

Aryan homoeroticism and Lenin’s head: the museum showcasing Berlin’s unwanted statues

At the ancient citadel of Spandau, German history is redefined with rejected sculptures of figures ranging from Kant to Hitler

The Guardian - UK

Ukraine’s awkward allies: the far-right Russians fighting on Kyiv’s side

Notorious former football hooligan Denis Nikitin runs a controversial unit actively engaged alongside Ukraine forces

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Artworks stolen by Nazis returned to heirs of outspoken cabaret performer killed in the Holocaust

Seven valuable art pieces plundered by the Nazis more than 80 years ago are being returned to the heirs of a cabaret performer, who was killed during the Holocaust and whose massive art collection was stolen by the Third Reich

Radio France Internationale

French university begins work to return human remains to Tanzania and Namibia

The University of Strasbourg in north-east France has undertaken the task of verifying the origins of its collections of human skulls, bones and other remains that were collected in the wake of abuses under German colonial rule in Namibia and Tanzania. It comes as part of a restitution process demanded…

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