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Courage and Faith in Acacia Theatre's 'The Hiding Place'
Acacia Theatre’s revised version of The Hiding Place is a must-see event for those who need inspiration on how common people rise to the occasion and do the most uncommon things. more
Leningrad 1941-42: Morality in a City Under Siege (Polity), by Sergey Yarov
Based on original unexpunged sources, Russian historian Sergey Yarov’s Leningrad 1941-42: Morality in a City Under Siege is a disturbing examination of humanity under duress. more
Home Movies/Out on Digital: March 23, 2017
Based on a Robert Bloch story, The Skull (1965) is a metaphor of compulsion—the desire to acquire at all costs. Peter Cushing is excellent as the morally weak armchair student of evil w,Home Movies / Out On Digital more
Auditions for a Laura Ingalls Wilder Christmas
Christian-based Acacia Theatre Company has had success in the past with holiday shows based on Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House books. This coming holiday season, they return to Wilder’s pioneer stories in A Laura Ingalls Wilder Christmas. The.. more
Guilt and Responsibility
Arthur Goldman is a successful Manhattan industrialist, surrounded by his millions of dollars and a few loyal employees. But lurking in the shadows are also ghosts of his past, real and otherwise. Goldman is a Holocaust more
The Painter’s Stone (PublishAmerica), by John C. David
The German army is in full retreat, with the Russians closing in on Berlin. In Milwaukee author John C. David’s page-turning novel The Painter’s Stone, German soldier Paul Behring is horrified by what he has seen at Auschwitz more
The History Behind an ‘Army of Evil’
In the preface to his Army of Evil: A History of the SS (NAL Caliber), Adrian Weale points out that there seems “to be an increasing disconnection between what the organization was and how it is now portrayed more
The Pursuit of the Nazi Mind: Hitler, Hess, and the Analysts (Oxford University Press), by Daniel Pick
Daniel Pick’s apologetic tone is a measure of how far Freud has fallen. The University of London history professor has written a fascinating account of psychoanalysts who joined the war effort in the United Kingdom and the United... more
The Flat
Although the Israeli documentary The Flat explores the shadows cast by the Holocaust over survivors, perpetrators and their descendants, it’s also an essay with universal significance on memory... more
‘When Modern Was Degenerate’ Shows Artist Ahead of Her Time
Grete Marks is a name sharp and to the point, as sleek and no-nonsense as the huge photograph of her at the Milwaukee Art Museum exhibition “Grete Marks: When Modern Was Degenerate” (through Jan. 1, 2013)... more
Bernie Gunther Returns in 'Prague Fatale'
What an unusual household Philip Kerr's must be, what with his wife and children presumably living a fairly conventional life in contemporary Britain and he a most unconventional one in the middle of Europe in the middle of the previous cen... more
Esoteric Nazism in 'Hammer of the Gods'
David Luhrssen's Hammer of the Gods: The Thule Society and the Birth of Nazism (Potomac Books) evaluates a little-examined element of Nazism and does so with historical accuracy and insightful revelation. The Thule Society was a Munich... more
'The Hunger Angel' Lifts the Silence
For a past writing project I interviewed about two-dozen ex-POWs concerning their experiences in a Chinese-run POW camp in North Korea. When asked what topic or issue most occupied their thoughts and conversation, almost to a man they said ... more
Heinrich Himmler (Oxford University Press), by Peter Longerich
Mild-mannered Heinrich Himmler wasn't the architect of the Holocaust and other acts of mass murder by the Nazi Germans, but he was the principal engineer and chief operating officer of a terror machine. Peter Longerich's massively detailed ... more
Talking About Nathan Englander's New Works
What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank is a powerful, timeless collection of short stories, captured in exquisite prose. Author Nathan Englander's eight new narratives hit the full range of human emotions as they charismatically e... more
'Druggist of Auschwitz' Recounts Nazi Horrors
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” For this reason and others, readers continue to seek out books recounting tales from Nazi Germany's mass extermination of Jews, the Romani (gypsies), homosexuals and other ... more
Get Murdered By The Mob in South Milwaukee
The official website of the New York production of Murdered By The Mob bills itself as, “The Longest Running Interactive Mystery Dinner Theater in the Word!” And while I’m not sure exactly what that means, (note the apparent spelling error at .. more
Army of Crime
Life went on in Paris more or less as always after France fell to the Germans in 1940. The parks were filled with picnics and soccer, the streets were crowded with shoppers and culture continued with scarcely a blink. At first, for most peo... more
The Reich Falls
A little more than halfway through The Third Reich atWar (Penguin Press), the concluding v The Third Reich at ,Books more
Counterfeit King
Withhisgrim visage, tight lips and square jaw, Salomon (“Sally”) Sorowitschr The Counterfeiters, ,Film more
