Tobias Buck digs into how Germany dragged its feet on denazification and prosecutions for decades after war
second World War
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Worldview: Russia’s deeply ingrained tradition of violence against its neighbours and its own citizens led inexorably to the invasion of Ukraine, Sergei Medvedev argues
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Lyndsey Stonebridge’s biography of the US political theorist illuminates the titanic forces of love and evil which animate civilisation - be it the second World War or now. It is timely and magisterial
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The British government does not emerge well from this retelling Nicholas Winton’s scheme to save the lives of hundreds of children
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Thinking Anew: The horrors of the Hamas assault on Israel, and now of the bombing of Gaza, should not blind us to hope
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