The Globalist

As tragic as September 11 was, it triggered a return to the American past – a nation driven by fear, not optimism.

Prominent Nazis were interrogated after the end of World War II in a U.S. prison codenamed “Ashcan” south of Luxembourg. From there they were sent to the war crimes trial in Nuremberg.

North Stream 2: Is the gas pipeline’s completion really mandated by history, as the German President has claimed?

There must be a new urgency to ensuring that people everywhere understand the horrors of the past and the dangers of today’s authoritarian trends.

This time, it may be Europe – not the United States – that faces the ghosts of the “MS St. Louis.”

The tragic case of Japan’s WWII sex slaves.

Today’s refugee crisis imagery echoes the Dutch England-Voyagers and French escapees of World War II

With nothing left to prove on battlefields, Germany can pursue other tasks and strategies.

What are the prospects for the next 70?

The surprising way in which historical choices present themselves in cycles that are 100 years apart.