From the "We are presenting a united front on Greek auster... wait, France? What the fuck are you doing?" file: German industry and politicians have attacked a proposed French warship deal with the near-bankrupt Greek government, according to the magazine Spiegel. State-owned French naval shipyard...
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In the comments to yesterday's post on German Civil War reenactors, people mentioned Germans' love of westerns. This reminded of the remarkable box set released by First Run Features a.
Yoni Applebaum has an interesting piece on the popularity of reenacting the U.S. Civil War in Germany. While one might poo-poo any real analysis of this as being just Gone.
Quiggin on the end of the Great War: Despite the emergence of the ever-present nuclear menace, 1945 marked the low point of the 20th century in many ways. At least on the Western side, the peace settlement was far less draconian, and far more successful,...
I finally watched Valkyrie this week, and I ended up liking it a lot more than I expected. Unlike many critics, I thought that Cruise did a solid job as.
This is one reason why Europeans understand war differently than Americans: An Allied bomb left over from World War II has exploded in Germany, killing three military engineers who were.
Underlining this bit of nonsense about the Germans using submarine-towed V-2 launchers to attack the United States during World War II is the implicit assumption that the US is fundamentally unlike other countries, and that piercing US immunity to attack is somehow catastrophic to the...
To be a bit more sympathetic than Yglesias, I think that Krugman's argument on Poland might most profitably be put into this form:A Poland with sensible institutions wouldn't have suffered.
The obvious move here is, as I suggested last year, to recast Arminius as proto-AIDS activist. Suddenly, Germany has the world's most progressive and forward-thinking national hero. I don't see.
This is a very interesting find:Archaeologists have found more than 600 relics from a huge battle between a Roman army and Barbarians in the third century, long after historians believed Rome had given up control of northern Germany. Some of the artifacts are so well...
Does anyone out there interpret Downfall in the same way as Ron Rosenbaum?This has always been my problem with films like the German-made Downfall, which while initially being taken seriously.
Somebody explain to me how this makes sense:A small explosion in Kosovo is quickly growing into a much bigger incident after the authorities in the capital, Pristina, arrested three Germans,.