“I would have sold my soul like Faust” “in the final analysis I myself determined the degree of my isolation, the extremity of my evasions, and the extent of my ignorance.” The preponderance of historians agree that Albert Speer was a calculatingly selfish intellectual and a technocrat devoid of morality. But he was no empty ...
Whether they know it or not, most Americans are at least somewhat familiar with Leni Riefenstahl’s “Triumph of the Will.” Almost every documentary you have ever seen about Hitler or the Third Reich contains footage from this Nazi propaganda movie. It has also influenced the way movies are made because it introduced a number of ...
We drove along the Schwarzwald (Black Forest) from our abode in Baden-Wurtemmberg to the Bavarian town of Ulm in the Swabian Alps for an afternoon stroll and lunch. The Ulm Műnster (Cathedral) boasts the world’s tallest steeple. The view from above after climbing 768 stairs is supposed to be stupendous, but I passed on the ...
Historians often ask themselves how history might have developed differently without particularly important people like Alexander the Great, Karl Marx, or Constantine. These individuals and people like them have made contributions so vast to the development of the human race that we would live in a different world if they have never been born or ...
Sometimes you just have to read a zombie book for fun. I know, that’s kind of hard to do with zombies being the flesh-eating creatures wanting to eat brains, but if you ever pick up a zombie book by Scott Kenemore you’ll see what I mean by a fun zombie book. Scott is the same ...
