Germany
Serious Music for Serious Times
There is an extraordinary fit between Japanese musical tastes and German Lieder
Ypres: Never Say Never Again
The Armistice commemorations in Ypres: Remembrance cannot cure us of the instinct for war, but it can help to restrain us
Duped by the Devil
Behind Closed Doors: Stalin, the Nazis and the West by Lawrence Rees
The Man Who Flew Too High
Demagogue and darling of Austria’s far-Right, Jörg Haider had power within his grasp. Why couldn’t he seal the deal?
Complexities of Urban Terror
A new German movie strips away the myths surrounding the Baader-Meinhof gang
Out of the Twilight Zone
An exhibition of WG Sebald’s archives offers an intriguing view of the late UK-based emigré German writer’s life and loves
ONLINE ONLY: A Pacifist at Hitler’s Side
Human Smoke by Nicholson Baker
Hitler’s European Union
Hitler’s Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe by Mark Mazower
From Berlin to Beijing
The tradition of the Olympic torch relay is not ancient and has nothing to do with Greece. It was in fact an invention of the Third Reich
Why Remoaners should back Boris
“Boris, ironically, now offers Remoaners the best chance of a soft Brexit, or at least a sensible one. And to those who want a second referendum—’the people’s vote’—there may even be a chance of that too.”
On the road
“In the summer of 1980, in the grip of some Kerouac-ish fantasy, I opted to hitch-hike from Laredo to New York”
Discovering the Great War of China
A third of a million Chinese labourers helped the Allies defeat the Kaiser, but their huge unsung contribution ended in betrayal