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Danger of war in Israel: Interview with historian Tom Segev – Politics

4 days ago

Interviewed by Alexandra Föderl-SchmidFor more than eleven weeks, hundreds of thousands have been protesting against the judicial reform in Israel....

Historian Harold James on Eastern Europe, Putin and German tanks

1 week ago

"They wanted me to disappear from the world" She was a star in Iran until she had to flee in...

Israel: Historian Meron Mendel: “No taboo to criticize Israel”

3 weeks ago

"Israel is on the way to a defective democracy," warns the director of the Anne Frank educational center, Meron Mendel....

Historian Biess on the Ukraine war: Germany and the “turning point” – politics

1 month ago

Interviewed by Johan SchloemannAfter the Russian attack on the Ukraine A year ago, Chancellor Olaf Scholz spoke of a "turning...

Sportpalast speech: historian lets the air out of the myth of Joseph Goebbels

1 month ago

80 years after Joseph Goebbels' "Do you want total war" speech in the Berlin Sportpalast, the historian Peter Longerich analyzes...

Historian warns of dangers posed by the new government in Israel

2 months ago

Benjamin Netanyahu The re-elected prime minister at a cabinet meeting. (Photo: IMAGO/UPI Photo) Tel Aviv Prominent Israeli historian and publicist...

On the death of the art historian Hans Belting

2 months ago

Aby Warburg, doyen of modern cultural studies, once ridiculed the obstructively narrow demarcation lines between the disciplines as “aesthetic border...

Status in the Hohenzollern dispute: Nobility as the antithesis to democracy

2 months ago

All attempts at conciliation failed. Now the dispute between the authorities and the Prussian heirs is likely to be continued...

Historian Horst Möller turns eighty: talent and temperament

2 months ago

Horst Möller is a phenomenon. Apart from the hair that has turned gray, his shape and physiognomy have hardly changed...

The historian Horst Möller turns eighty

2 months ago

Horst Möller is a phenomenon. Apart from the hair that has turned gray, his shape and physiognomy have hardly changed...

Historian on Ukraine war: “They suffer from post-imperial trauma”

3 months ago

The historian Andreas Kappeler says that the special relationship between the "unequal brothers" is responsible for Putin's aggression towards Ukraine....