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They would have killed Kafka
On Prague, memory and the man who dreamt the century’s nightmares
9 hrs ago
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Katja Hoyer
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The German Godfather of Horror
Or: The terrible tales of E.T.A. Hoffmann
Nov 2
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Katja Hoyer
48
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October 2025
Josef Mengele: Truth and Fiction
Thoughts on a new film about the notorious Nazi doctor
Oct 30
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Katja Hoyer
33
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Can you produce art in a dictatorship?
Or: East German art in the dustbin of history
Oct 26
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Katja Hoyer
71
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On Germany's immigration debate
If Germany were a person, I’d say she seems permanently on edge these days.
Oct 23
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Katja Hoyer
60
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How humour and decency challenged autocracy
The astonishing story of Soviet dissent
Oct 19
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Katja Hoyer
49
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Weimar - Germany in a Nutshell
A Preview
Oct 16
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Katja Hoyer
98
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The Nazi dilemma facing German actors isn't going anywhere
Remember Colonel Hermann Dietrich in Raiders of the Lost Ark? That arrogant Nazi officer heading the excavation project that Indiana Jo…
Oct 12
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Katja Hoyer
100
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The modern methods of scholarship that helped identify a Nazi killer
How AI, public scholarship and mass media can aid historians
Oct 9
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Katja Hoyer
46
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History and the Manchester synagogue attack
Reflections on a dark day in Britain
Oct 5
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Katja Hoyer
95
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From Hitler's horses to Lenin's head
A stroll through a graveyard of German history
Oct 2
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Katja Hoyer
75
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September 2025
Could Frederick the Great have prevented the Great War?
A headache-inducing counterfactual
Sep 28
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Katja Hoyer
94
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