Culture

The Strange Case of the Missing Nazi Home Movies

Here’s something you don’t read every day: Eva Braun made 16mm home movies of Adolf Hitler and other high-ranking SS soldiers. The films were used as propaganda, showing the Nazi officials goofing off and playing with dogs and children. They were captured by the Americans after World War II and housed at the National Archives. […]

Jean-Paul Sartre & Simone de Beauvoir Loved the Jews

Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir weren’t just the reigning power couple of existentialist philosophers—they were also dedicated activists, railing against the Vietnam War, abuses in the Soviet Union, and, perhaps surprisingly, anti-Semitism. Sartre and de Beauvoir traveled to Israel in 1967, months before the outbreak of the Six-Day War. There they were greeted by […]