Facing Hate With Elie Wiesel

Staff / Truthdig Jul 4, 2016 "We must speak We must take sides," the late Holocaust survivor, Nobel laureate and author told Bill Moyers in this timeless interview We must take sides". Dig deeper ( 29 Min. Read )

Himmler’s Secret Diaries and Letters Uncovered

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jan 28, 2014 Letters, photos and diaries belonging to Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler have been discovered in Israel, revealing greater detail about one of the men who was directly responsible for the Holocaust. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

David Cay Johnston: Social Security Is Not Going Broke

Staff / Truthdig May 4, 2012 "Which federal program took in more than it spent last year, added $95 billion to its surplus and lifted 20 million Americans of all ages out of poverty?" finance columnist David Cay Johnston asks. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Polish Gov’t Launches Auschwitz Probe

Staff / Truthdig Nov 12, 2011 The capture and prosecution of Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk in the U.S. earlier this year has prompted the Polish government to launch another hunt for any remaining staff members from Auschwitz who could still be at large. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Love Among the Beasts

BLANK May 20, 2011 Reviewing Erik Larson's "In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin," the author makes his case for "one good thing about the Nazis" and wagers that this romantic thriller of a memoir will hit it bigThe great thing about the Nazis Hmm No, that isn't going to work, for all the obvious reasons. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Demjanjuk Facing Jail Time for Holocaust Role

Staff / Truthdig May 12, 2011 It's taken several decades and a couple of different judicial systems, but Thursday, John Demjanjuk, an American who helped the Nazis murder about 28,000 Jews at a prison camp in Poland during the Holocaust, was finally sentenced to prison. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Auschwitz From Another Angle

Staff / Truthdig Sep 20, 2007 A newly released series of photos taken at Auschwitz and sent last year to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum shows Nazi officers and female SS members in a bafflingly banal (cf. Hannah Arendt) array of activities: singing, relaxing, laughing on group getaways, and even lighting Christmas trees. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )