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What we get wrong about how Germany has reckoned with its Nazi past

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Kaleido Scope

Professor’s new textbook challenges myths about Nazi Germany

Except “none of that is true,” writes Jonathan Wiesen, Ph.D., professor and past chair of UAB’s Department of History in “Nazi Germany: Society, Culture and Politics,” a new book from Bloomsbury Press ...
The New York Times

Elon Musk’s Downplaying of Germany’s Nazi Past

Re “On Auschwitz Anniversary, ‘Great Sorrow’ for Rising Nationalism” (front page, Jan. 28) and “Musk Urges End to Guilt for Nazi Past of Germany” (news article, Jan. 28): As we mark 80 years since the ...
Christian Science Monitor

Called to lead Europe, Germany weighs its national guilt. Is it time to move on?

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...
The Forward

What we get wrong about how Germany has reckoned with its Nazi past

On a recent Freakonomics episode about the German film director Werner Herzog, host Stephen Dubner voiced a familiar assertion about postwar Germany’s confrontation with the Nazi past — an assertion ...