With the global rise of the far-right, many Germans are afraid that the past is about to repeat itself. German writer Florian Illies explains the trap about such analogies — even as other dangers lurk.
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A French scandal, the birth of a dark political movement, and the start of an engineering marvel.
German journalist Laura Ewert found out that her grandfather had led a massacre of Italian civilians in 1944 during the Nazi era. Eighty years later, Ewert met descendants of the victims in San Polo and experienced reactions that she would not have expected.
Updated Jan. 5, 2024 at 12:00 p.m The German Workers’ Party is founded in 1919, which a little over a year later changed its name to the Nazi Party. Who founded the German Workers’ Party? The German Workers’ Party (DAP) was founded in Munich in the hotel Fürstenfelder Hof by Anton Drexler, along with Dietrich […]