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Berlin
fromThe Atlantic
3 days ago

Hitler's Edifice Complex

Hitler envisioned grand architectural projects to symbolize the power and grandeur of the German Reich, including a massive triumphal arch and a vast hall.
#nazi-germany
fromKqed
3 days ago
Berlin music

'Stay Alive,' About Life in Nazi Berlin, Shows How Easy it Is to Just Go Along

Berlin music
fromKqed
3 days ago

'Stay Alive,' About Life in Nazi Berlin, Shows How Easy it Is to Just Go Along

Ordinary Germans during the Nazi regime often remained silent, adapting to the system while some resisted and documented the truth.
Germany news
fromwww.dw.com
5 days ago

Were Grandma and Grandpa Nazis?

Access to Nazi party membership records is available online, but information is incomplete and subject to strict privacy laws in Germany.
Typography
fromOpen Culture
1 week ago

An Introduction to Brutalism: The Iconic Postwar Architectural Style That Combined Utopianism and Concrete

Esperanto was created as a universal second language, while Brutalism aimed to rebuild post-war society with raw concrete architecture.
Social justice
fromwww.dw.com
2 weeks ago

Racism in Germany widespread, but more subtle than before

Racism and discrimination in Germany are declining slightly, but xenophobic views persist among a significant portion of the population.
Film
fromPsychology Today
3 weeks ago

Hermann Goring As Everyman

The Nuremberg film dramatizes the trial of Hermann Göring, exploring how personality, history, and politics combined to create evil, challenging assumptions that perpetrators were mad rather than vain and rational.
Berlin music
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

Death, power and paranoia: painting that shocked German society finally returns to Berlin

Mors Imperator, a painting by Hermione von Preuschen, symbolizes the transience of power and fame, returning to Berlin after over a century of controversy.
Philosophy
fromThe Conversation
3 weeks ago

Women of the Rosenstrasse protest challenged the Nazi regime for their detained Jewish husbands' freedom - and won

Non-Jewish German women protested on Rosenstrasse in February 1943 to demand the release of their arrested Jewish husbands, successfully challenging Nazi persecution during the Holocaust.
Film
fromwww.dw.com
3 weeks ago

Fritz Lang's 'Metropolis': The future is now

Fritz Lang's 1927 film Metropolis, set in 2026, prophetically depicted AI and automation concerns that mirror modern anxieties about technological displacement and social inequality.
Germany news
fromwww.dw.com
3 weeks ago

Germany news: WWII bomb forces major evacuation in Dresden

Dresden evacuates 18,000 residents after discovery of a 250-kilogram British bomb from World War II near the Carola Bridge, requiring defusal in the city's largest evacuation since the war.
Berlin music
fromThe New Yorker
3 weeks ago

Life in Hitler's Capital

A new book presents firsthand accounts from diverse Berlin residents during World War II, including students, musicians, Nazi members, and resistance fighters, revealing their personal experiences during wartime.
History
fromWorld History Encyclopedia
1 month ago

12 Maps of World War II in Europe and Africa

World War II emerged from post-WWI tensions, economic instability, and totalitarian regimes, resulting in unprecedented destruction and reshaping the global balance of power.
Germany news
fromwww.dw.com
1 month ago

Berlin factory turns symbol of German militarization debate

German activists oppose a Berlin factory's transition to munitions shell production, attempting to mobilize workers toward civilian production alternatives.
France news
fromThe Local France
1 month ago

Swastikas tagged at former Nazi transit camp near Paris

Swastikas were spray-painted on buildings at the Drancy internment camp site in Paris, a former Nazi transit point for 63,000 Jews deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau during World War II.
Germany news
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

Adolf Hitler Meets the Weird Homicide Fairy

Criminal investigations frequently encounter irrelevant evidence and loose ends that complicate case resolution, particularly in serious crimes like homicide.
fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
1 month ago

Berlin cathedral opens newly renovated crypt to house coffins of Prussia's ruling dynasty

The most recent final resting place for 91 members of the family is Berlin Cathedral's crypt, which opens to the public this weekend after a €29m, six-year renovation. Sonja Tubbesing, the cathedral official responsible, describes it as the church's biggest building project since its post-war reconstruction.
Berlin
Right-wing politics
fromLEVEL Man
1 month ago

Why the Nazi Story in America Isn't History - It's a Mirror

American Nazi and KKK movements formed similarly, using scapegoating and charismatic leaders to build national organizations like the German Bund across the United States.
Miscellaneous
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

We can see that courage': Greece recovers long-lost photos of Nazis' May Day executions

Photographs emerged showing 200 communist prisoners walking to execution at Kaisariani in May 1944, revealing their stoic defiance and renewing public attention.
fromwww.mediaite.com
1 month ago

1930s Germany Vibes': Critics Slam White House For Installing Trump Banner on DOJ Building

Work crews used cherry pickers to erect the Make America Safe Again banner featuring Trump's portrait on Thursday. Ken Dilanian with MS NOW posted, This is a stunning confirmation of the grim reality, which is that Donald Trump has seized control of the once independent Justice Department and is using it to pursue his political objectivesincluding trying to punish his perceived enemies.
US politics
Travel
fromConde Nast Traveler
1 month ago

The Rise of Cool in Frankfurt

Frankfurt named 2026 World Design Capital and features The Florentin, a 147-key Althoff boutique melding historic villa suites, elegant interiors, spa, and Michelin-starred dining.
#world-war-i
Arts
fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

The Importance of Making "Degenerate" Art

Art can be deliberately non-neutral and ethically engaged, refusing neutrality, civility, and institutional comfort to confront injustice and amplify marginalized voices.
fromenglish.elpais.com
1 month ago

The Name on the Wall': Nazis must be taken seriously

A few years ago, sometime during the harrowing year of 2020 that would change everything, author Herve Le Tellier discovered that someone had written a name on the outer wall of his new house in the village of La Paillette, in southern France. When he later found that the same name appeared on the monument to the town's sons who died for the homeland, Le Tellier realized he had a story in his hands and that he wanted nothing more than to tell it.
Books
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Berlin
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Stay Alive: Berlin 1939-45 by Ian Buruma how Berliners defied their Nazi masters

Even as Nazi repression and wartime hardship increased, Berlin retained pockets of defiant, everyday resistance and nonconformity among ordinary citizens.
fromwww.kaltblut-magazine.com
1 month ago

Experience the Essence of Black Creativity at Platte Berlin!

From February 17 to March 10, 2026, the vibrant intersection of fashion and art will come alive at Platte Berlin with SPOTLIGHT ON BLACK CREATIVITY. This unmissable pop-up exhibition showcases the brilliance of Black designers and visual artists, setting the stage for an extraordinary celebration of heritage and contemporary expression. Dive into a world where creativity knows no bounds, featuring groundbreaking brands such as adesa, Amaluma Studio, Gelisa George, Dinga, Azea Zalea, and GEMZ.
Fashion & style
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Philosophy
fromOpen Culture
2 months ago

Walter Benjamin Explains How Fascism Uses Mass Media to Turn Politics Into Spectacle (1935)

Mechanical reproduction erodes art's aura—its authentic presence—transforming art into mass-mediated spectacle and simulated intimacy while commodifying personality.
fromwww.dw.com
1 month ago

'Threat to world peace': How Germans see the US now

After the tensions of the George W. Bush era, the new US president's approval ratings among Germans skyrocketed. According to a Pew Research Center survey, 93% of Germans believed Obama would "do the right thing regarding world affairs." That remains a record to this day. Even in 2016, at the end of his second term, an extraordinary 86% of Germans still trusted Obama.
US politics
Design
fromOpen Culture
1 month ago

The Untold Story of Bauhaus Women: The Avant-Garde Artists Who Helped Shape Modernism

The Bauhaus advanced many women’s artistic and design careers despite institutional gender limitations, including enrollment caps and restricted opportunities under Walter Gropius.
Miscellaneous
fromwww.dw.com
2 months ago

Germany news: Berlin mulls sending migrants to third nations

Germany and several EU states are forming a group to create migrant return hubs and negotiate deportations to third countries, increasing returns and deportations.
Germany news
fromThe Atlantic
1 month ago

Hitler In Greenland

Adolf Hitler developed a strategic interest in Greenland, collecting Arctic exploration works and directing expeditions aimed at accessing cryolite and other economic resources.
Berlin
fromThedrum
2 months ago

Kulturprojekte Berlin: Taking a historical journey with Facebook Augmented Reality ads

An augmented reality and Messenger project recreated Berlin Wall events at nearly 40 historic sites to educate young Germans, increasing reported understanding to 80%.
History
fromWorld History Encyclopedia
2 months ago

The Story of WWI in 50 Images

The First World War transformed warfare through global mechanised conflict, widespread civilian impact, and immense human suffering from Sarajevo's assassination to the Paris Peace Conference.
#berlin-blackout
fromwww.dw.com
2 months ago

Germany updates: Parliament to mark Holocaust Memorial Day

Two men reportedly fired shots at an elite police unit during a car chase in southern Germany Tuesday evening, causing a road accident in which five people were lightly injured. Officers from the Spezialeinsatzkommando (special deployment unit, or SEK) had attempted to arrest three men, aged 23, 24 and 30, in the small town of Absberg near the city of Nuremberg on suspicion of illegal possession of weapons.
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