The Wehrmacht only objected to the Third Reich’s policies of extermination when it looked like it might suffer the repercussions.
Seminal New Book Shows Just How Little German Army Objected to Holocaust
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Spanish Austerity Savage to the Point of Sadism
Even though Deutsche Bank helped cause its financial crisis, Spain is bailing it out.
How the Nazis Stole Storytelling
The Nazis unintentionally kick-started avant garde film.
Germany’s Social Democrats and the European Crisis
Germany towers over Europe like a colossus. Its economy is the biggest in the European Union, accounting for 20 percent of the EU’s gross domestic product. While most of Europe’s economies are stagnating, Germany’s will have grown by some 2.9 percent in 2011. It boasts the lowest unemployment rate, 5.5 percent, of Europe’s major economies, compared to those of France (9.5 percent), the United Kingdom (8.3 percent), and Italy (8.1 percent).
Germans Now Draw as Much of Afghans’ Ire as Americans
The people of both Afghanistan and Germany want Germans out of Afghanistan.
Pastor Terry Jones Islamophobia’s Surprising Origins in Europe
Pastor Terry Jones spent years in Germany, where Islamophobia has sunk its roots.
Getting History Right the First Time
In his classic novel Every Man Dies Alone, just published last year in English but written immediately after World War II, Hans Fallada gets it right the first time.
Afghanistan and the German Peace Movement
On September 4, NATO’s International Security Assistance Force conducted an airstrike on a fuel tank hijacked by the Taliban in northern Afghanistan. The attack killed dozens of people including civilians, according to NATO sources. However the German Minister of Defense, Franz Josef Jung, has stubbornly denied that the attack harmed civilians, insisting instead that “only Taliban were killed.” Jung even verbally attacked NATO and EU statements on the topic, saying that “other countries should not interfere.”
Afghanistan and the Greens
On September 3, the German command in northern Afghanistan in the Kundus region ordered an International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) air raid on two oil tankers that had, according to intelligence reports, been hijacked by Taliban forces. U.S. bombers carried out the raid destroying the two targets. In the days that followed different numbers of casualties, including civilian victims, were reported. An ISAF fact-finding mission reported 125 dead, among them at least two dozen civilians. The German defense minister initially asserted there were no civilian casualties at all — and then later backtracked. The events of early September in northern Afghanistan have initiated a fierce debate in Germany about the role of German forces in the country — and provoked stiff criticism from Germany’s allies.
Review: ‘Joschka Fischer and the Making of the Berlin Republic’
The United States wasn’t the only country transformed by the social activism of the 1960s. Peace activists, Greens, and cultural hippies practically turned Germany upside down. And the man who has symbolized this thoroughgoing change more than any other German is Joschka Fischer.