Topic: The Gestapo

Code Name Verity

This young adult novel of female friendship and peril amid World War II is an unexpected gem. 

Twenty years later, Rodney King riots still resonate

South Los Angeles has calmed, but memories still remain.

Horizons
Forget vitamin C! Albert Szent-Gyorgyi lived with spies, lies.

Few remember the name Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, but he discovered vitamin C. Google honors the Hungarian scientist-turned-freedom-fighter-turned-covert-diplomat today with a citrus-packed doodle.

In the Garden of Beasts

How a cautious American academic and his flirtatious daughter met evil in Hitler’s Germany.

Daniel Stein, Interpreter

Russian writer Ludmila Ulitskaya creates a novel from the real-life story of a Holocaust survivor who became a monk.

Berlin At War

The horrors of civilian life in Berlin during World War II.

Opinion: Hope for reversing America's decline: the Millennial Generation

Young people aren't really "going to the dogs." With their upbeat, service-oriented drive to help others, Millennials give this flawed age an important counter-force for progress.

The Hare with Amber Eyes

An artist traces a century of heartbreaking family history by pursuing the path of a group of tiny, beloved objets d’art.

Franz Kafka lost writings resurface, trapped in trial

Franz Kafka lost writings, retrieved from bank vaults where they have sat untouched and unread for decades, could shed new light on Franz Kafka, one of literature's darkest figures.

Based on the true story of 'John Rabe': movie review

The little known but true story of John Rabe, a German businessman who saved thousands of civilians during the rape of Nanking in 1937.

Cannes Film Festival's 'Hors la Loi': How well does France face its past in Algeria?

At the Cannes Film Festival last month, riot police reined in protests over 'Hors la Loi,' a film that sparked clashes over the French Army's 1945 massacre in Algeria of at least 10,000.

Cartier-Bresson: A master's black-and-white world

Cartier-Bresson captured moments and movements of profound social change with an artist's eye. A new exhibition looks at 45 years of his iconic work.

Chapter & Verse
Miep Gies, protector of Anne Frank

Miep Gies, one of the heroes who sheltered the Frank family, always insisted that she did nothing out of the ordinary.

Oldest Holocaust survivor tells a story of faith and courage that's out of the ordinary

Leopold Engleitner endured the Holocaust. His long life since has inspired others.

The story of the oldest living Holocaust survivor

World

Former British spy's WWII exploits revealed

Pearl Cornioley passed secret messages in the hem of her skirt during World War II.