The diminutive dictator who ruled Spain with an iron fist
General Franco died on 20 November 1975, and with the 50th anniversary just passed, this biography – the…
The extraordinary courage of Germany’s wartime ‘traitors’
I once interviewed the late Enoch Powell for this magazine (the article never appeared, for reasons I forget).…
Bollwerk Bälin: Germany’s military practices domestic deployment and operates as far as New Zealand and into outer space
This week, one of the most aggressive military manoeuvres of the postwar period took place in Berlin. Under…
Top military brass intensifies Germany’s war preparations against Russia
German General Major Christian Freuding, left, who is in charge of the German Bundeswehr’s (army) “Situation Command Ukraine”…
US-Israeli attack on Iran: German politics and media abandon international law
There is hardly any war that violates international law as flagrantly as the US-Israeli attack on Iran in…
The return of German militarism drives first national Veterans Day
On June 15, Germany held its first-ever national Veterans Day—a sinister milestone in the return of German militarism.…
Bill Maher Says Larry David’s Essay About Him Insults ‘6 Million Dead Jews’
Comedian Bill Maher insists he’s OK with Larry David writing a scathing piece spoofing Maher’s recent meeting with…
Column: What Hannah Arendt saw in Hitler’s Germany, we can see in Trump’s America
As a descendant of German immigrants, from college on I devoured histories of the rise of fascism to…