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Shortly after the Wehrmacht attacked the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, the first villages were burned down and civilians were murdered. Photo: picture alliance/photo archive for contemporary history/archive |…

The communists and social democrats thought about a united front against the fascists too late. They could no longer prevent the Hitler dictatorship. Photo: pholder.com If you have to look…

The right people from the wrong provider. But without a streaming channel, there’s no big stage. It’s networked. Photo: Netflix When Dave Chappelle’s special “The Closer” appeared on Netflix in…

Books that are out of line: Mural for Brigitte Reimann in her birthplace Burg, Saxony-Anhalt Photo: IMAGO/imagebroker Should you publish everything that is found in the archives, especially if it…

Show of solidarity by Turkish women for Pinar Selek in front of the courthouse in Istanbul Photo: dpa Bulent Doruk A woman has to survive this! To be persecuted for…

Werner Tübke, Sicilian landowner with puppets, 1972, Albertinum/Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden Photo: © VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2024 Werner Tübke, born in 1929 in Schönebeck on the Elbe, traveled to Italy in…

Union’s Brenden Aaronson (r.) made the difference against Bremen’s Senne Lynen. Photo: imago/Luciano Lima The atmosphere in the Alte Försterei on Saturday was reminiscent of a time not so long…

Building a new society: Oleksandr Bohomazov, “Sharpening the Saws” (1927) Photo: National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv A sketch by Kasymyr Malevych. El Lissitzky’s geometric figures. And there further ahead…

Is that Kiev Stingl or Lou Reed? Photo: Archive Anyone who actually does “their thing” as an artist and doesn’t care about becoming a state-recognized cultural promoter during their lifetime,…

It’s normal for British nobles to lease their land to a drug lord in “The Gentlemen.” Photo: Netflix Primogeniture is a law of feudal succession that has less to do…