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EST 1917

revenge on nazis

Nazis. If it’s not one thing it’s another. In 1935, when the party held a national photo contest to find the most beautiful Aryan baby, Joseph Goebbels himself chose—wait for it—a Jewish child to represent the race. According to Hessy Taft (née Levinsons), her photo was submitted without her parents’ knowledge by Hans Ballin, a well-known Berlin photographer. Her […]

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In The Last Sentence, by Swedish director Jan Troell, journalist and former theologian Torgny Segerstedt asks a variation on the old question “If a tree falls and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?” If a writer protests and no one hears him, what is his ire worth? It’s 1944, […]

The 1992 video game Wolfenstein 3D was the first “1st-person shooter”—that is, a game where the screen mirrored the character’s field of vision, and the player’s presence is marked by the barrel of a gun in the lower-right hand corner of the frame. The game itself is simple. B.J. Blaskowicz, a Polish spy, prowls through Nazi dungeons […]

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