Posts Tagged ‘nazis’
Hitler’s “Anti-Lie Bureau”
From the Chicago Tribune, April 10, 1932: The Fascist chieftain has been forced to establish an “anti-lie bureau” to issue daily answers to his opposition’s accusations that his movement is illegal, following a series of sensational raids on Nazi headquarters in Prussia and the publication of the Bavarian and Hessian governments of seized documents…
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The Book Thieves
Ceremonial book burnings and the theft of precious art works are well-known elements of Nazi Germany’s rampage through Europe. In The Book Thieves: The Nazi Looting of Europe’s Libraries and the Race to Return a Literary Inheritance, Swedish journalist Anders Rydell tells the less familiar story of how two Nazi agencies—the intelligence wing of the…
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The Nazi and the Psychiatrist
I’ve been looking forward to reading Jack El-Hai’s The Nazi and the Psychiatrist ever since I heard him talk about it at a conference in April. Now that I’ve seen the book trailer, I’m even more excited about it. Take a peek: http:// [If you subscribe to History in the Margins by e-mail, you probably…
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