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Judgment at Nuremberg
Judgment at Nuremberg – IMDB Fictionalized depiction of the 1947 Judges’ Trial, the third of 12 trials of Nazi war criminals conducted by the American occupying forces in Nuremberg, Germany, in which former judges of Nazi Germany were tried for their actions. View the IMDB Movie Listing: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055031/?ref_=tturv_ov_i
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The Weimar Republic Shaped the 20th Century. Can Today’s Leaders Avoid Its Fate? – The New York Times
Weimar Dispatch A Failed State Shaped the 20th Century. Can Today’s Leaders Avoid Its Fate? A fragile democracy, the Weimar Republic, briefly took hold in Germany before the Nazis seized power. Now, Weimar’s collapse is seen as a warning. Listen to this article · 6:36 min Learn more By Clay Risen, Clay Risen reported from…
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Speed-Running Tyranny: Did Hitler Really Take Germany in 36 Days? – A DWD BRIEF
Editor’s Note: For some historical context, I worked with Gemini 3 AI to explore an oft-quoted Hitler “fact.” See below for our findings. This was inspired by the speed of Trump’s facist and right-wing Republican/GOP takeover of American Democracy in his last and second term. –DrWeb In the world of political commentary, a specific “fact”…
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Letters from an American – December 6, 2025 – Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American, December 6, 2025 By Heather Cox Richardson, Dec 06, 2025 On the sunny Sunday morning of December 7, 1941, Messman Doris Miller had served breakfast aboard the USS West Virginia, stationed in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and was collecting laundry when the first of nine Japanese torpedoes hit the ship. In the…
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Opinion | America is losing scientists. Here’s a solution – The Washington Post
Opinion The best and brightest scientists won’t put up with this The assumption that top researchers will endure any visa hardship to stay in the U.S. is obsolete. December 1, 2025 at 5:45 a.m. EST, Yesterday at 5:45 a.m. EST, 5 min By Chris R. Glass, Chris R. Glass, a professor of the practice at…
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Column: Fascists like Trump love art — for all of the wrong reasons
“By policing what these institutions can talk about and trying to influence the kind of art that is and isn’t acceptable, President Trump is leveraging art as a tool of authoritarianism.” Source Links: Column: Fascists like Trump love art — for all of the wrong reasons
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Analysis of Historical Parallels Between Trump Supporters and Nazi
A special research report from DrWeb’s Domain #Resistance… via Perplexity… Germany Key Questions Addressed Would Trump Supporters Have Supported Hitler in 1930s Germany? Multiple Reddit discussions draw direct comparisons between Trump’srhetoric and Hitler’s strategies. Users note similarities in: A German Reddit user emphasized that while Trump lacks Hitler’ssystematic ideology, his dehumanizing language (e.g., “vermin”) andalliances…
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How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days – The Atlantic
Source Links: How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days – The Atlantic
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Putin’s attack on Ukraine echoes Hitler’s on Czechoslovakia – The Washington Post
The Nazi leader used similar tactics to dismember and devour Czechoslovakia before World War II By Michael E. Ruane, Feb. 24, 2022, at 1:15 p.m. EST By 1939, parts of Czechoslovakia had already been carved off and taken over by Nazi Germany, which claimed that millions of ethnic Germans were being persecuted there. The previous…
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100,000 Banned Books Have Been Formed Into a ‘Parthenon of Books’ | Architectural Digest
The temporary exhibition will be held in the same location where the Nazis burned hundreds of thousands of censored texts Source: 100,000 Banned Books Have Been Formed Into a ‘Parthenon of Books’ | Architectural Digest
