Unlike past forms, modern autocracy offers stability, encourages scepticism about political alternatives and causes withdrawal from civic engagement
The Holocaust should serve as a universal warning against genocide. Instead it is invoked to sanitise Israel’s persecution of Palestinians
Manipulators of nationalism, religious identity and racism are a constant risk to democracy across the world.
Although leaders of the reconciliation era accept South Africa’s last white president, younger politicians are not as forgiving
We need to resist the patriarchy, racism, sexism and capitalist greed that is still prevalent on the globe
‘Nazi Germany and apartheid South Africa dwell in my mind as I try to understand our histories, our now and our possible futures’
Opera star Yevgeny Nikitin, who was forced to pull out of the Bayreuth Festival over swastika tattoos, insists the images are not Nazi.
Academics say the time has come for some of the taboos surrounding Hitler’s book in Germany to fall.
The world’s most-wanted Nazi war criminal, 97-year-old Sandor Kepiro, went on trial on Thursday, charged with "complicity in war crimes" in 1942.
The US Holocaust museum has teamed up with a genealogy website to provide online information about those who were persecuted by the Nazis.
A monument dedicated to the thousands of gay people persecuted and tortured by the Nazis has been vandalised in Berlin.
Quentin Tarantino, the master of bloodbath cinema, is to give his trademark comic-book treatment to the Nazis and World War II.
As the last generation of Germany’s Holocaust survivors enters the twilight years, many are losing the strength to suppress horrific memories.
