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A controversial quote attributed to Adolf Hitler mentions cremation rituals at Benares and reveals deep colonial prejudice.

Even in ancient Greece, people worried about philosophy’s subversive effect on tender minds.

A fire that consumes the world: Berlin -- Ghosts at Berliner Stadtbibliothek: Berlin -- Goethe's oak: Weimar -- Himmler's library: Munich -- A warrior against Jerusalem: Chiemsee -- Consolation for ...

German director Dennis Gansel remembers an incident that would ultimately inspire his war film The Tank (original German ...

Billy Graham’s use of the phrase underscored a connection between Christianity and antisemitism seen in the 2026 Mississippi ...

The essays in this reissued collection are told with great wit and on a variety of fascinating subjects where there is ...

The defendants reject the charge, and the company maintains that there is no legal basis for the prosecution. The company ...

They stand accused of complicity in war crimes. The defendants reject the charge, and the company maintains that there is no ...

Books have always possessed an unsettling power to challenge authority, reshape minds, and ignite revolutions. Throughout ...

Defenders say AI can do good to fight the climate crisis. But spiralling energy and water costs leave experts worried ...

Eva Schloss, who has died aged 96, was a friend of Jewish war diarist Anne Frank and a survivor of the Nazi death camps; in ...