Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
Where fraught national histories are concerned, do policies of remembrance and education work, or is it better to wipe the slate clean?
Holocaust
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
In The Writers’ Castle: Reporting History at Nuremberg, Uwe Neumahr discovers that it wasn’t just the men in the dock who had scandalous social lives and hidden agendas.
‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review
As the last living perpetrators are brought to justice, Final Verdict: A Holocaust Trial in the Twenty-first Century by Tobias Buck wonders what purpose the prosecution of Bruno Dey serves.
Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
The kapo trials of the early 1960s confronted a difficult question: how should Israel judge Jews accused of complicity in the Holocaust?
‘The World at War’ and the Holocaust at 50
‘Genocide’, the Holocaust episode of The World at War, was pioneering when it first aired. Does it stand the test of time?
Diamonds and the Holocaust
As Jewish lapidaries were held in Nazi concentration camps, diamond sales soared in the US. Both sides saw gemstones as integral to the war effort.
Never Again by Andrew I. Port review
‘Real world’ German responses to postwar genocide.
Continental Shame
The Holocaust as European history.
‘Nakam’ by Dina Porat review
Nakam: The Holocaust Survivors Who Sought Full-Scale Revenge by Dina Porat explores acts of vengeance in the aftermath of the Second World War.
The Roma Holocaust
Europe’s Roma were the victims of Nazi genocide during the Second World War, but their persecution did not end in 1945.