WWII
Churchill and the genocide myth
Zareer Masani says the wartime prime minister has been unfairly vilified over the 1943 Indian famine
European champions
Kampfner has written a scrupulously researched yet not uncritical tribute to postwar Germany
Britain’s Nazi collaborators
If Hitler’s planned invasion of Britain had succeeded he would have found accomplices as fanatical as those in Europe
NHS Pronoun Police
Pronouns day, Unknown soldier wasn’t black, tampons go woke and the BBC is hijacked by impartiality rules
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
Nazi blueprint for postwar integration
How Walther Funk’s 1940 memo predicted the rise of the European Union
American Tolstoy
Time to proclaim the greatness of Herman Wouk, once feted for the sweep of his historical novels
The week the war ended
Seventy-five years ago this month, peace finally came to a destroyed Europe
Hurrah for small decencies
Local suspicion is outweighed by the kindness of others
Leading by tantrum
Jeremy Black reviews Hitler: Downfall 1939-45 by Volker Ullrich