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Verhoeven's "Black Book" is an outrageous tale of vengeance, treachery and sexual desire. Plus: Duchovny and Weaver play for laffs.
By Andrew O'Hehir
April 5, 2007
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This extraordinary and deeply moving Oscar-nominated movie illuminates a forgotten patch of history.
By Stephanie Zacharek
February 16, 2007
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Vera Atkins was a sphinx to those who knew her, but as a superb new biography reveals, the gallant spymistress of World War II was driven by personal secrets and loyalties.
By Laura Miller
January 4, 2007
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Daniel Mendelsohn remembers the strange effect he had as a boy on his kin in this excerpt.
By Daniel Mendelsohn
December 14, 2006
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The Nobel Prize in literature has come to symbolize greatness in life, as in art -- but Günter Grass isn't the only laureate with a questionable past.
By George Rafael
October 11, 2006
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Teen People nixes a feature on the nation's favorite preteen Aryan warblers.
By Rebecca Traister
November 28, 2005
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What drew German teens by the millions to the Hitler Youth? The uniforms, the camaraderie, the cultish adoration of Der Fuhrer -- and lots of Aryan sex.
By Jana Prikryl
December 3, 2004
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In his most believable novel in years, Philip Roth imagines a 1940s America where Charles Lindbergh unseats FDR and the nation descends into vicious anti-Semitism.
By Laura Miller
September 29, 2004
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The fight against junk e-mail is never pretty, but what happens when a spam-fighter messes with the wrong party?
By Brian McWilliams
September 7, 2004
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The ultimate political insult is making a comeback. But does anyone know what it really means?
By Laura Miller
April 19, 2004
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So the Allies ruthlessly -- and unjustifiably -- firebombed Germany's most beautiful city and murdered hundreds of thousands of people, right? Not quite, says a prominent British historian.
By Laura Miller
March 1, 2004
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What does a former white-power activist do after being drummed out of the movement? He turns to peddling penis-enlargement pills.
By Brian McWilliams
July 29, 2003
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In our roundup of the best new mysteries, black America's answer to Ross Macdonald, a Danish boy fights the Nazis, and the great Ross Thomas, back in print at last.
By Charles Taylor
March 17, 2003
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She was in the bunker with you-know-who and can't forgive herself. In this haunting documentary, 81-year-old Traudl Junge faces the truth.
By Charles Taylor
January 31, 2003
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In Costa-Gavras' hard-hitting if heavy-handed "Amen," an SS officer with a conscience can't convince the Vatican to care about the fate of Europe's Jews.
By Stephanie Zacharek
January 24, 2003
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Coming to an Internet portal near you: Art treasures seized by Hitler's minions in World War II.
By Katharine Mieszkowski
October 16, 2002
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The debate over Albert Speer's responsibility for Nazi war crimes rages on in a new biography of the Third Reich's master architect and planner.
By Wesley Yang
September 26, 2002
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A newly discovered memoir by a German classified as "Aryan" describes the insidious early spread of Nazism and how hard it was to resist.
By Charles Taylor
September 3, 2002
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A historian describes Germany's fall to the Soviets in 1945, when civilians suffered the full fury and horror of war.
By Allen Barra
June 11, 2002
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Readers respond to articles on Hitler's Jewish psychic and Robert Brooks' vision of the future.
March 1, 2002
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Online allegations of Nazi-looted art inspire a suit that could test the limits of Internet libel law.
By Jori Finkel
July 13, 2001
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A Hitler-celebrating alum's cash convinces a North Dakota university to keep its degrading Indian mascot.
By King Kaufman
March 8, 2001
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His new translator tells you what you need to know about the philosopher -- and why you need to know it.
By Ralph Brave
November 13, 2000
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After World War II, 800 years of history came to a standstill in the Polish city of Oswiecim. Fifty years later, residents are growing restless.
By David Lazarus
September 18, 2000
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The son of an Auschwitz survivor accuses the "Holocaust industry," Elie Wiesel and Jewish leaders worldwide of a vast shakedown.
By Viktor Frvlke
August 30, 2000