Time and Power: Visions of History in German Politics, from the Thirty Years’ War to the Third Reich, by Christopher Clark
Hester Vaizey on how regimes employed different temporal signatures to legitimate their authority
Hester Vaizey on how regimes employed different temporal signatures to legitimate their authority
An insightful contribution to a crowded field invites us to consider Nazism as a promise to deliver a different kind of society, finds Hester Vaizey
Book of the week: memoirs of the Weimar generation are formed into a powerful social history, writes Hester Vaizey
An anecdote about a sandwich illustrates the Allies’ struggle to make the Nazis pay, says Hester Vaizey
Millions went West for a better life, but there were casualties in the human traffic, says Hester Vaizey