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World War II
March 31, 2016
Gavin Jacobson
Under the Protection of Holy Sisters
A Jewish refugee in occupied France, Moritz Scheyer was sheltered by nuns.
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.
December 11, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
Was C.S. Lewis a secret government agent during World War II?
December 7, 2015
Jeet Heer
Erick Erickson has a peculiar understanding of World War II.
September 29, 2015
Despina Stratigakos
The Secrets of Hitler’s Vacation Homes
The Nazis created a wholesome, nature-loving image for Hitler at his mountain retreats. We've never fully dismissed it.
May 18, 2015
Steve Friess
A Liberator, But Never Free
October 21, 2014
Michael Kimmage
America's Most Elusive Military Hero Finally Gets His Due
Even his heroism was somehow private
June 24, 2014
The New Republic Staff
These Vintage Photos of Naked Soldiers Show the Intimate Side of War
June 18, 2014
David Thomson
'The Last Sentence' is a Holocaust Film with a Monstrous Hero
The acclaimed director of 'The Emigrants' and 'The New Land' returns with a powerful true story.
June 15, 2014
Michael Ignatieff
Stories of Life after the Shoah
Surviving after World War II—for victims and victors
May 9, 2014
Julia Ioffe
Putin Is Trying to Take Over Russia's Memories of WWII
Here's why he can't
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
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