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“The witness – a tall, 16-year-old boy with a child-like face – recounts his sad story as if he were an old man”, she noted in her papers. “He speaks without becoming upset, only breaking down slightly when I ask about the fate of his parents and sister”.

In this fourth guest entry on The Volokh Conspiracy, I examine a domain where the European Court of Human Rights… The post Hate Speech and the European Court of Human Rights: Article 17, Memory Politics, and the ECtHR's Selective Silencing appeared first on Reason.com.

After attending the 1961 trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, the philosopher and political theorist Hannah Arendt claimed what was terrifying about this man was not his moral monstrosity. It was his sheer normality. She subtitled her 1963 book on the subject, Eichmann in Jerusalem, “a report on the…

Papers from SS headquarters uncover instruction to kill up to 1,000 enslaved labourers on island of Alderney

Who is a collaborator? What leads people to collaborate with the enemy in times of war? How do they justify their actions? These questions are at the core of an insightful comparative biography by the prolific, award-winning Dutch writer Ian Buruma.

The writer digs deep into the often deceptive history of three people who conspired with their oppressors in this fascinating if disjointed examination of moral ambiguity

While German law bans the display of Nazi iconography, the distribution of over 300,000 pieces of combat equipment with the combination of the letters 'SS' fell through the net

Experts have transcribed a letter from an SS officer which may uncover the mystery behind WW2's stolen artefacts and priceless pieces of art

Tova Friedman was selected for the gas chambers at Auschwitz along with other children, but miraculously survived after guards changed their mind at the last minute