Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Germany's Taliban Trail: From Murat Kurnaz to Cüneyt Ciftci

When it emerged in mid-March that the perpetrator of a deadly suicide attack on American troops in Afghanistan had come from Germany, the American media showed little interest.

Thursday, May 08, 2008

What did the Grand Mufti Know?

Did the Amin al-Husaini, the "Grand Mufti" of Jerusalem, know about the Nazis' ongoing program to exterminate European Jews when he lived in Berlin from 1941-1945? In my recent review of Klaus Gensicke's Der Mufti von Jerusalem und die Nationalsozialisten, I questioned whether a visit by a member of the Mufti's entourage to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp near Berlin could be taken as proof that the Mufti also knew what was transpiring in the death camps further to the East, such as Auschwitz and Treblinka.

Thursday, April 24, 2008

Do You Remember Herta Däubler-Gmelin?

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

French Complicity in the Rwandan Genocide: An Interview with Jean-Paul Gouteux