London mansion where ‘secret listeners’ spied on Nazi prisoners for intel opens as museum – The Art Newspaper
A London mansion where walls had ears—and not just walls but lamps, tables and garden benches—opens to the…
France’s mission to return Nazi-looted art to its owners
After decades dodging the issue of art looted by the Nazis, France has set up a new mission…
Artist Erna Rosenstein, whose work about memory and loss resonates today, celebrated with major Vienna exhibition – The Art Newspaper
Influential during her lifetime, yet largely unfamiliar outside of central and eastern Europe, the Polish artist Erna Rosenstein…
Brown tree snakes reached Guam hidden in military cargo during World War II, and it triggered an ecological collapse that wiped out nearly all native birds and slashed tree seedling growth by up to 92% |
An invasive snake that likely arrived on Guam hidden inside military cargo after the Second World War went…
Should Germans still feel guilty about the Nazis?
While promoting her latest film at Cannes, Fatherland, based on Thomas Mann’s and his daughter’s return to their…
Medvedev Says Germany Has Made Revanche Official
Dmitry Medvedev said Germany’s new military strategy names Russia a fundamental threat and, in his view, formalizes a…
Often painful story of Irish emigration to Britain over 200 years comes to the Epic museum – The Irish Times
Irish emigrants who have travelled to Britain since the 2008 economic crash are better-off and better-educated than the…
Row over protest at Buchenwald memorial event highlights rising sense of danger in Germany – The Irish Times
At Buchenwald concentration camp memorial on Sunday, a ceremony to remember Germany’s burdened past knocked out a long-planned…
This German thinker sounded an alarm about the EU and the US – are we ready to listen? – The Irish Times
The German philosopher Jürgen Habermas, who died last month, was understandably despondent about much in the autumn of…
Nonesuch by Francis Spufford review: Time and reality bend in magical wartime London
Set in 1939 as London finds itself on the brink of war, our narrator is the bright, ambitious,…