“What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.” – Elie Wiesel
The Surprising Histories Behind Tolkien’s Stories of the War of the Ring. A readalong with my Tolkien reading group on the roads of Middle-earth.
Jojo Rabbit and 1917 are two of the most beautiful films set during a war I’ve ever seen.
If you don’t know what Dieselpunk is, don’t worry. Lots of people don’t. This is a tentative explenation of the genre and its potentials
“Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.”
– Primo Levi
This month’s Gang Roundup is particularly focused on stories. Mystery novels set in Berlin in the 1920s, WWI films, dieselpunk takes at WWII
One of the most speculated matters in the history of the Weimar Republic is whether it would have weathered the hard crises of the Great Depression, and so resist the rise of the Nazi, if all forces had been more united. Disunity – both true and perceived – was indeed a characteristic of the Weimar…
Often described as punitive to Germany, the Treaty of Versailles failed to create the base for long-lasting, solid peace in Europe
The NSDAP (The Nazi Party) was a very small, mostly regional, not very influential party for most of the Weimar history. What really singled it out from all the other similar movements was its leader: Adolf Hitler.
How is it that it's December already???
This year is almost gone too, and I won't be sorry to see it go eaither. It has been another though year, though in a different way from 2017. I keep hoping the new year will be better. I'm still here hoping.
But hey, on the jolly side, I've won…
GANG ROUNDUP (August 2017) monthly roundup particularly centred around stories set in the ‘Diesel Era’ (1910 – 1950s) – plus a couple more things
Fatherland by Robert Harris is probably one of the most popular alternative historcial novels. It’s a good one… if with a few shortcomings