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May 19, 2026
The recent Nuremberg movie spotlights a fascinating, behind-the-scenes relationship at the historic Nuremberg Trials that followed World War II. Over many months, U.S. Army psychiatrist Dr. Douglas Kelley examined and …
January 20, 2026
The Director by Daniel Kehlmann (translated from German by Ross Benjamin) is a powerful, darkly comic World War II novel about art, ego, and bad choices. The “Director” of the …
November 4, 2025
The iconic World War II film, The Train, asks whether it is moral to risk human lives to save art. In an early scene, a French Resistance leader initially refuses to …
May 29, 2025
In the 1990s, American playwright and screenwriter Alice Austen was working as a lawyer in Brussels. Some elderly neighbors in her elegant Beaux Arts apartment building befriended her, inviting her regularly …
March 3, 2025
After Sasha Vasilyuk’s grandfather died in Donetsk, Ukraine, in 2007, her grandmother made a shocking discovery. In an old briefcase stashed under a bed, she found a confession letter her …
