Jun 7th, 2008 · The recent anti-China protests in Tibet have raised concerns about the 2008 Beijing Olympics. But the political controversy over this summer's games pales in comparison to the 1936 games in Berlin, hosted by Adolf Hitler during the rise of Nazi Germany.
Jul 14th, 2007 · An archive of Jewish documents detailing the community's life in Vienna after Austria's annexation by Nazi Germany has gone on public display seven years after it was uncovered.
Jun 14th, 2007 · Former U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim dies of heart failure at his home in Austria. Waldheim hid his Nazi Germany military service to lead the world body, but it was revealed when he ran for president of Austria in 1986.
May 12th, 2007 · Nearly 70 years ago, Jewish refugees were appealing to the U.S., trying to escape Nazi Germany. A few Washington officials had a plan to loosen America's strict immigration quotas and allow the Jews to live in Alaska. That proposal never passed Congress. NPR's Scott Simon talks with Richard Breitman, author and professor of history at American University, about the Alaskan resettlement plan and why it didn't work.
Mar 7th, 2007 · The Los Angeles Opera is launching a multi-year project to perform the music of composers whose work was suppressed by the Nazis. The inaugural concerts this March include a fully staged performance of Alexander Zemlinksy's A Florentine Tragedy. Visual art also suppressed in Nazi Germany will be projected on the stage during the concert.
Jun 17th, 2005 · The alleged mistreatment of detainees at the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay sets off a heated Senate debate. Senator Richard Durbin, an Illinois Democrat, compared a description of mistreatment -- submitted to a Pentagon investigator by an F-B-I agent -- to actions carried out by Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia. Some Republicans accused Durbin of maligning American military personnel.
Mar 8th, 2005 · Hans Bethe, a key figure in designing the atomic bomb, died at home Sunday at 98. Bethe, who left Nazi Germany and joined the Cornell University faculty in 1935, led the Manhattan Project's theoretical physics division. His explanation of how the sun and stars generate energy earned him the Nobel Prize in 1967. Jeremy Bernstein, author of a biography of Bethe, discusses the life of the physicist.
Mar 1st, 2005 · Robert Siegel talks with Tom Reiss, author of The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life. Reiss' book details the life of Lev Nussimbaum, a Jew from Baku, Azerbaijan, who passed himself off as a Muslim prince in Nazi Germany.