WWII

How Hollywood managed to celebrate German culture in 1954

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s musical coming out just nine years after the end of World War II invited Germany back into polite society

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Nazi blueprint for postwar integration

How Walther Funk’s 1940 memo predicted the rise of the European Union

Features
American Tolstoy

Time to proclaim the greatness of Herman Wouk, once feted for the sweep of his historical novels

Features
The week the war ended

Seventy-five years ago this month, peace finally came to a destroyed Europe

Features
Hurrah for small decencies

Local suspicion is outweighed by the kindness of others

Features
Leading by tantrum

Jeremy Black reviews Hitler: Downfall 1939-45 by Volker Ullrich

Books
Reel hell of the Western Front

The director wanted to show things as they were – badly-led, no one wanting to fight or knowing what they were fighting for, says Christopher Silvester

On Cinema
War-war not jaw-jaw

Robert Hutton reviews Our Man in New York by Henry Hemming

Books
We shouldn’t handle the truth about Coronavirus

There are grown-up reasons for the state and the plague is one

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Captain courageous

Jamie Blackett reviews Vintage Roger: Letters from the PoW years by Roger Mortimer

Books