Hitler

October 20, 2017

With Catalonia threatening to declare independence from Spain, we look into the origins of the dispute between Barcelona and Madrid.

Seventy years later, a Holocaust survivor remembers the performance of her lifetime

March 12, 2014

70 years ago, Ella Weissberger stood on stage as a cat in the first performances of the children's opera Brundibar. The stage was in a Nazi concentration camp and she was a prisoner. Weissberger still attends performances and shared her story with The World's Nina Porzucki.

How one man's Olympic design influenced your next trip to the public restroom

February 06, 2014

German designer Otl Aicher created the pictograms for the 1972 Summer Olympic Games in Munich. His design has influenced not only future Olympic pictograms but many signs we see on a daily basis.

Ukraine's identity crisis is nothing new

December 12, 2013

Ukraine has been gripped by demonstrations for weeks now. Protesters want the President to keep his promise and sign a deal with the European Union. The deal would bail out the country's broken finances and bring it into closer association with Brussels. Russia doesn't like that. It's not the first time in Ukraine's history that is has to decide between East and West.

German police find masterpieces by Picasso and others thought lost in World War II

November 04, 2013

News broke over the weekend in Germany that 1500 masterpieces by Matisse and Picasso and others were found in an apartment in Munich.

Conflict & Justice

Greeks are seeing the neo-Nazi face of the popular Golden Dawn party

October 02, 2013

Until recently, the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party enjoyed substantial popularity in Greece. Then, two weeks ago, a Golden Dawn member admitted to killing anti-fascist rapper Pavlos Fyssas. In the following days, Greek authorities arrested more than 20 Golden Dawn members, including much of the party's leadership.

Obama calls on America to act to 'stop children from being gassed'

September 10, 2013

In a national address to a skeptical nation and a divided Congress, President Barack Obama laid out his case for military strikes on Syria, but made a commitment to one more last-ditch effort at diplomacy.

Cold War linguists: NSA spies in Teufelsberg kept ear on Soviets

June 20, 2013

At the height of the Cold War, a small group of Army personnel monitored communications in Soviet-controlled East Berlin. They'd send the recordings back to NSA headquarters in Washington and — in many ways, are the precursors to the modern surveillance system that has become so controversial.

Richard Wagner's 200th birthday passes with little notice in the U.S.

Studio 360

June 03, 2013

Richard Wagner's music was widely celebrated in the United States for nearly a century, until it became inextricably linked with Nazism in the mid-20th Century. In late May, Wagner's 200th birthday passed -- and it did so with almost no fanfare.

Recovering East German Stasi documents

January 30, 2008

East Germany's Secret Service, or Stasi, kept extensive records on its citizens during the Cold War but tried to destroy them when its government toppled in 1989, but now German computer scientists are trying to repair those documents

Sports

Olympic torch controversy

April 08, 2008

The World's Alex Gallafent on the controversial history of the Olympic torch relay: the modern tradition of the relay started on the eve of the 1936 Olympic Games, hosted by Nazi Germany.

Conflict & Justice

English-language newspaper closes in Moscow

June 19, 2008

An irreverent English-language newspaper is forced to close its doors in Moscow, as Anchor Marco Werman speaks with Mark Ames, the editor of "The Exile."

Saving Bletchley Park

July 24, 2008

Bletchley Park, outside London, was one of the most important spying posts during World War II, and it was there that computer scientists cracked the supposedly unbreakable German communication codes, but now,

Looking back to Lockerbie

September 05, 2008

Susan and Dan Cohen lost their only child, Theodora, when Pan Am Flight 103 was blown up over Scotland. Libya has accepted responsibility for the plane's bombing.

What Hitler read

October 24, 2008

Anchor Marco Werman speaks with Timothy Ryback about his new book, "Hitler's Private Library - the Books that Shaped his Life."

Honorary Oscar for Godard

November 12, 2010

ï¿½French New Wave' director Jean-Luc Godard is getting an honorary Oscar tomorrow, though some critics say he shouldn't. They say he's anti-Semitic and so are some of his films.That is not the way people in France see the director. Anita Elash has more.

Conflict & Justice

Eastern Europe's Bloodlands'

December 10, 2010

The opening of Soviet and East European archives has provided historians a tidal wave of new information about the crimes of Soviet leader Josef Stalin. Brigid McCarthy reports on one historian's work.

Sports

Baseball honors Walter O'Malley, who moved the Dodgers to L.A. 50 years ago

The Takeaway

July 25, 2008

This year marks the Los Angeles Dodgers' 50th anniversary in the City of Angels. The architect of the team's move from Brooklyn, Walter O'Malley, will be inducted, posthumously, into the National Baseball Hall of Fame this weekend. New York writer Pete Hamill said O'Malley was the only man Brooklynites hated more than Hitler.

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