SHORT TAKES President Trump and Vice President Vance berate President Zelensky at the White House, February 28, 2025. JOHN CONNELLY Worse than Chamberlain Why Trump’s betrayal of Ukraine...
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ARTICLES A State without Suicide The Passions of T. G. Masaryk John Connelly Which nightmare of modern times would we make disappear if we could? Few people would hesitate to answer "Nazism"—a...
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BOOKS John Connelly Family Values Not I Memoirs of a German Childhood Joachim Fest translated by Martin Chalmers Other Press, $16.95, 464 pp. In Berlin on the evening of December 5, 1930,...
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John Connelly Steven Englund reminds us that no single event signals the end of a story. The Vatican II document Nostra Aetate seemed to conclude decades of struggle over a new Catholic position on...
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BOOK ESSAY Through a Glass Darkly How We Came to Blame the Jews John Connelly Anti-Judaism The Western Tradition David Nirenberg W. W. Norton, $35, 579 pp. In this monumental and brilliantly...
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Nazi Racism & the Church How Converts Showed the Way to Resist John Connelly It sometimes seems that the controversy over Pope Pius XII and his role during the Holocaust has lasted several...
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The Ultimate Crime Katyn & the Invention of Genocide John Connelly Recent months have seen remark' able events and developments in the legacy of Katyn, the village in the woods of western Russia...
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John Connelly Hitler’s Gospel The Aryan Jesus Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany Susannah Heschel Princeton University Press, $29.95, 384 pp. T he greatest...
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Commonweal . September 26, 2008 20 indiana university press books The First Cold Warrior? ated by the thousands. Men, women, which mentioned the “hundreds of thouand children died by the...
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nato.int bombs and killed no one. He opposed assassination primarily because of its political repercussions in a post-Nazi society. Von Möltke’s close friend Adam von Trott zu Solz...
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Reformer & Racialist Karl Adam’s Paradoxical Legacy John Connelly R ecently, a friend sent a color postcard from Poland, showing Pope Benedict XVI waving to a crowd and proclaim-ing: “The...
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