Christian Science Monitor6h
Where Nazis first won office, Germans are voting for right-wing extremists
In the German region of Thuringia, where Nazis had their first electoral wins, the extreme right-wing AfD is now ascendant.
Yahoo1d
22 movie musicals you should watch that aren't 'Wicked'
Minell, in an Oscar-winning roll, plays a young, bohemian performer at the Kit Kat Klub in the last days of the Weimar ...
Why People Should Stop Comparing the U.S. to Weimar Germany
Those who draw a line from today to that infamous historical moment when democracy slid into authoritarianism are missing a key difference.
The New Yorker9d
The Surprisingly Sunny Origins of the Frankfurt School
When a group of German Marxists arrived in Naples in the nineteen-twenties, they found a way of life that made them rethink ...
It's time Columbus reflects on why neo-Nazis feel welcomed in our community | Opinion
Neo-Nazis marched through the streets of the Short North, but events like this are not a rarity in Columbus. Why are fascist ...
Innocence and mischief – Desmond O’Neill on the humorist and social commentator Erich Kästner
A literary anniversary almost entirely unnoticed in the English-speaking world this year was that of Erich Kästner (1899-1974 ...
The Magic Mountain Is A Sweeping Critique Of Totalitarian Europe. 100 Years Later, Its Warnings About Extremism Feel Urgent
This month, Nobel Prize winner Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain turns 100. One of the 20th century's towering literary ...
The Washington Post27d
Weimar life pops in this ‘degenerate’ portrait of a doctor to the stars
Otto Dix refused to flatter his subjects — but they agreed to sit for him anyway. I’m no prognosticator, but I’m anticipating the return, any day now, of the house style of Germany’s ...
New York Sun11d
While Trump Seeks Cost Cutting, the Fate of Social Security Hangs in Balance
If the US does not figure out a way to get Congress to do something responsible here,’ Weimar-type inflation could be ahead ...
The Jerusalem Post Blogs23d
Urgent lessons from Kristallnacht’s history after Amsterdam’s pogrom - opinion
Many German Jews in the 1920s Weimar Republic were promised full emancipation and citizenship rights, akin to the protections granted to Jewish communities in other European countries like England ...
The Magic Mountain is a sweeping critique of totalitarian Europe. 100 years later, its warnings feel urgent
Thomas Mann’s intellectual masterpiece is interested in time, love, mortality, culture – and the fragility of civilisation.