States of (Gay) Liberation in East Germany and West Germany
Samuel Clowes-Huneke’s decades-spanning, groundbreaking history of gay liberation in East Germany and West Germany challenges conventional assumptions about dictatorships and democracies.
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Shaved Jews and Philosemitic Fantasy: On ‘Jud Süss’ and ‘Das alte Desetz’
The fascist mind, always limited by parochial sentimentality, fears art because it fears any hint of ambiguity.
Jason Lutes, Author of ‘Berlin’, on Drawing War Comics and Resisting Fascism
As we learn in this interview, when Jason Lutes began drawing the Berlin series in the '90s, he had no idea his own country would be facing the threat of fascism, again, by the time he completed it.
Fascism Shows Its Everyday Face in ‘The Order of the Day’
Éric Vuillard's work is a short, sublime history that provides a necessary and contemporary service by stripping away the mythic quality of Nazi fascism.
Double-agents, Movie Stars, Studio Moguls, and ‘Hitler in Los Angeles’
While America was riveted by the "Red Scare" on the one hand, it failed to see what the other hand, the Nazi threat, was doing.
Democracy Sputters and Nazis Rise to Power in ‘Babylon Berlin’
Volker Kutscher and Arne Kysch's graphic novel is a riveting and fun police drama set against the backdrop of a society gone mad.
Victory Is Never Assured in ‘Darkest Hour’
Joe Wright's sharp and only occasionally sentimental snapshot of Churchill in extremis as the Nazi juggernaut looms serves as a handy political strategy companion piece to the more abstracted combat narrative of Dunkirk.
Carsten Norgaard: The Mystery Man in ‘The Man in the High Castle’
It's tough playing a Nazi with a conscience, but veteran actor Carsten Norgaard not only lives up to the challenge presented in Amazon's The Man in the High Castle, but stretches beyond what's expected of him.
Another Kind of Horror: ‘When Paris Went Dark’
When Paris Went Dark is a penetrating history of the anxiety, confusion, claustrophobia, and uncertainty experienced by a city in the grip of an unpredictable menace.