Tag: Nazis

• Quisling: What’s in a name?

  In July 2016 I visited the Norway Resistance Museum in Oslo, which told the story of Norway’s occupation by the Nazis during World War II. A name that kept popping up throughout the museum was Vikdun Quisling, the Norwegian politician who collaborated with Hitler and seized control of Norway’s government during the occupation. I wanted to…

  Mar 31, 2018

  # Adolf Hitler, Akershus Fortress, book notes, books, Germany, history, Madison, Nazis, Norway, Oslo, Quisling, review, Vidkun Quisling, Wisconsin, World War II

• Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich

  Don’t do drugs, kids. But do give it up for whoever thought of the perfect double entendre title and cover for Norman Ohler’s Blitzed: Drug Use in the Third Reich. This topic is definitely not something I’ve heard about in the history books, as they say, so perhaps it’s fitting that Ohler is not a historian…

  Jul 25, 2017

  # book notes, books, drugs, Germany, history, Nazis, review, World War II

• The Book Thieves

  As I read Anders Rydell’s The Book Thieves: The Nazi Looting of Europe’s Libraries and the Race to Return a Literary Inheritance, I kept thinking of Sean Connery’s line from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: All this book burning by the Nazis entailed looting a continent’s worth of libraries and archives, specifically to root out so-called…

  Feb 21, 2017

  # books, censorship, collecting, Indiana Jones, libraries, Nazis, review

• The Man In The High Castle

  Not long after we subscribed to Amazon Prime did I check out the pilot of The Man in the High Castle. I’d heard some good regard for the show, but didn’t think to seek it out until it was suddenly available to me. Boy am I glad I did. Set in 1962, the show exists in a…

  Mar 16, 2016

  # America, dystopia, Germany, Japan, Nazis, Philip K Dick, review, Rufus Sewell, television, The Man in the High Castle, World War II