The Last Days Of The Third Reich
Forty years ago, a tangle of chaotic events led to the death of Hitler, the surrender of the Nazis, and the end of World War II in EuropeJoseph E. PersicoApril/may 1985The last time Grand Adm. Karl...
View ArticleWhy We Didn’t Use Poison Gas In World War II
In a conflict that saw saturation bombing, Auschwitz, and the atom bomb, poison gas was never used in the field. What prevented it?Barton J. BernsteinAugust/september 1985Forty years ago, on August 6...
View ArticleThe Dangerous Summer of 1940
For a few weeks Hitler came close to winning World War II. Then came a train of events that doomed him. An eloquent historian reminds us that however unsatisfactory our world may be today, it almost...
View ArticleThe Big Leak
So big was the leak that it might have caused us to lose World War II. So mysterious is the identity of the leaker that we can’t be sure to this day who it was … or at least not entirely sure.Thomas...
View ArticleTriumph And Tragedy
Stephen ShieldsDecember 1989It was the second of May, 1945, six days before the end of the war in Europe. We were members of Headquarters Battery, 608th Field Artillery Battalion, 71st Infantry...
View ArticleWhat Does History Have To Say About The Persian Gulf?
What the past tells of America’s role in the current crisis is sometimes contradictory—but always worth listening toFredric SmolerNovember 1990Men and women achieve historical perspective by making...
View ArticleThe Transatlantic Duel: Hitler Vs. Roosevelt
In 1941 the President understood better than many Americans the man who was running Germany, and Hitler understood Roosevelt and his country better than we knewJohn LukacsDecember 1991In the summer of...
View ArticleSecret Treason
He wanted only what every journalist of the time did: an exclusive interview with the Duke of Windsor. What he got was an astonishing proposition that sent him on an urgent top-secret visit to the...
View ArticleNuremberg, Time And Memory
JUSTICE SERVED NEARLY FIFTY YEARS AGO IN A WRECKED GERMAN CITY STILL CASTS ITS EIGHT AND SHADOW OVER MUCH OF THE WORLDJoseph E. PersicoJuly/August 1994A SENSATION OF PARALLEL TIME. of one eye fixed on...
View ArticleRevising The Twentieth Century
THE GREAT STRUGGLES of our century have all been followed by tides of revulsion: Americans decided we were mad to have entered World War I; Russia should have been our enemy in World War II; the...
View ArticleGermany’s America
For a century and a half Germans have been deeply ambivalent about the United States, and their contradictory feelings say much about their future in Europe and the worldV. R. BerghahnMay/June 1995In...
View ArticleMartha Dodd’s Shining Season
It took a long time for the truth about Nazi Germany to sink in. And when it did, she learned the wrong lesson.Gene SmithJuly/August 1997The only complaint Martha Dodd had about her father as she grew...
View ArticleFighting The Last War—and The Next
Our government called the terror attacks on our country an act of war and replied with a declaration of war on terrorism. What can history teach us about our prospects in such a war?Fredric...
View ArticleThe Churchill-Roosevelt Forgeries
The campaign to revise Hitler’s reputation has gone on for 50 years, but there’s another strategy now. Some of it is built on the work of the head of the Gestapo—who may have enjoyed a comfortable...
View ArticleI Was Just Hitler's Type
April 1996In 1933–34 I was a junior at Smith College taking a year to study German literature and medieval art at the University of Munich. I lived with the Count and Countess von Armansperg and their...
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