Archive - ZEITGEIST

The German Godfather of Horror

Or: The terrible tales of E.T.A. Hoffmann

Nov 2 •

October 2025

Josef Mengele: Truth and Fiction

Thoughts on a new film about the notorious Nazi doctor

Oct 30 •

Can you produce art in a dictatorship?

Or: East German art in the dustbin of history

Oct 26 •

On Germany's immigration debate

If Germany were a person, I’d say she seems permanently on edge these days.

Oct 23 •

How humour and decency challenged autocracy

The astonishing story of Soviet dissent

Oct 19 •

Weimar - Germany in a Nutshell

Oct 16 •

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 •

The modern methods of scholarship that helped identify a Nazi killer

How AI, public scholarship and mass media can aid historians

Oct 9 •

History and the Manchester synagogue attack

Reflections on a dark day in Britain

Oct 5 •

From Hitler's horses to Lenin's head

A stroll through a graveyard of German history

Oct 2 •

September 2025

Could Frederick the Great have prevented the Great War?

A headache-inducing counterfactual

Sep 28 •

In Search of Prussian Berlin

It’s hard to see Berlin as a Prussian city today.

Sep 25 •

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