Bundespräsident Steinmeier und Ungarns Staatspräsident Sulyok haben gemeinsam der Verschleppung Zehntausender Ungarndeutscher vor 80 Jahren gedacht. Viele von ihnen mussten Zwangsarbeit in der Sowjetu...

4/5: There are two tank legends about Hitler's attack on Russia- Operation Barbarossa that sort of seem to misalign. In one, the Nazis slice through the Soviets with total ease - without serious oppos...

Peter Vodosek: Peter Vodosek reviews Volume 4, Part 1 of the multivolume series Geschichte des deutschen Buchhandels, which covers the Western occupation zones and the reestablishment of the book trade between 1945 and 1949. Featuring archival-based studies, the volume analyzes Allied cultural policies, institutional rebuilding, and the varied strategies of the American, British, and French authorities. Central figures like Douglas Waples and Alfred Döblin underscore the intellectual engagement in cultural reconstruction. The volume also addresses censorship, democratization, and the founding of the Frankfurt Book Fair. Vodosek praises the project as a benchmark of scholarship and anticipates the completion of subsequent volumes.

4/5: What was it like to cruise across a continent in Ike's "Crusade" to free Europe? Michael Robert Ibbotson discussed it at length with his uncle, whose memoirs he presents here. Arthur was a big fa...

talesofthemiddleages.com - It’s hard to imagine the hardships of war given the lives we live today. The atrocities have been romanticized in movies, but the stark reality was …