Nazis
Paul Hindemith: Mathis symphony (Naxos), Clarinet concerto (Orfeo)
When asked “which Hindemith should I try first?”, I’m lost for an answer
The American who let the Nazis rebuild Germany
John McCloy freed Hitler’s favourite industrialists. Their firms still dominate the country’s economy
The Battle of Britain was not won by the Few
We credit pluck for what we really owe to imperial and industrial might
Sweetening the Covid Kool-Aid
Incentivising vaccination calls medical ethics into question
No babies, no more Nazis
If we introduce selective breeding to weed out the problematic, there would be no more Nazis
Blue bloods and brownshirts
The intricate relationship between German aristocrats and Nazi Germany
The modernist who wanted to be Führer
Charles Saumarez Smith says we should acknowledge the Nazi past of architect Philip Johnson, not erase him
Mood music from the past
A confidential matter: the letters of Richard Strauss and Stefan Zweig, 1931-1935
The broken circle
A remarkable group of intellectuals in pre-war Vienna used philosophy to explain the scientific progess of their time — until they were halted by murder and Nazism
The paradox of Nazi culture
The Nazis were so obsessed with the otherness of the Jews that they created an alternative cultural universe for them
