modern German history
Has Germany finally shaken off its dark past?
‘When it comes to helping others, we are the world champions’, one politician declared in 2015. But Merkel’s welcome to immigrants was pragmatic – and anti-Semitism is on the rise again
Germany’s post-war recovery was no economic miracle
Lord Macaulay wrote that ‘during the century and a half which followed the Conquest there is, to speak strictly, no…
Is Germany really such a role model?
The British romance with Germany has always been an on-off affair. At the turn of the century, Kaiser Bill enjoyed…
The greatest ‘if only’ of modern history... that the Weimar Republic had succeeded
Has it ever occurred to you that the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 might have won us the war? Until…
Where is the rise of neo-Nazism around Europe leading?
‘Why would anyone write a historical study of it?’ asks Gavriel Rosenfeld about the Fourth Reich at the start of…
Why didn’t they try harder to assassinate Hitler?
Awareness of German opposition to Hitler is usually limited to Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg’s attempt to blow up the wretched…
