German Democratic Republic
Hitler fired him, the CIA hired him: The Reinhard Gehlen story
October 14, 2026Eighty years after the Nuremberg verdicts, the career of Hitler’s spy chief on the Eastern Front shows how Washington traded justice and democracy for anti-communism.
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Contested memory: The German Democratic Republic and its erasure
September 25, 2026The dominant Western account demonizes the GDR, erasing its social achievements, the conditions it faced and the experiences of its people.
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Tale of two elections: Fascism and socialism battle for Germany’s future
September 23, 2026The old political order is dying.
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The resistible rise of a fascist party in Germany
September 10, 2026The policies of the ruling parties, the CDU and the SPD alike, served to propel alienation, angst, and anger among the masses—especially in the east.
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The battle for Berlin’s memory
May 12, 2026Government officials are eagerly trying to erase or “contextualize” the physical reminders of the Soviet Union’s defeat of Hitler and fascism.
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