French film and WWII historian Sylvie Lindeperg analyzes Alain Resnais's seminal 1956 film, "Night and Fog", and attempts to place it in the context of the historical treatment of WWII, and specifically of the Holocaust, in the decade following those harrowing events. Oddly, she argues that the images of Resnais's famous film are "powerless", in her words.

The greatest secret of the Second World War has remained a mystery for the last 80 years: a Jewish C...

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As the campaign to force Jews out of Germany ramps up, the American government blocks efforts to hel...

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Nazi propaganda film “exposes” the United States and its plans against Germany and the German people...

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In February 1939, more than 20,000 Americans filled Madison Square Garden for an event billed as a “...

Pinky Thompson grew up in Hawaii during a time when one was punished for being Native Hawaiian. Afte...

Shortly before Christmas 1744, Vienna, the center of power in the Habsburg Empire, is the scene of a...

Gustave Folcher, a French farmer, wrote in his 1939 diary that the summer had been long and hot. He ...
Nisei Soldier focuses on the heroism of American men of Japanese ancestry who fought bravely during ...