David Motadel

Is Prussian Militarism a Myth?

Peter Wilson’s Iron and Blood is a bold survey of over half a millennium of German military history.

My Husband the War Criminal

Nancy Dougherty’s The Hangman and His Wife portrays Reinhard Heydrich as a cold, apolitical technocrat while downplaying his ideological commitment to Nazism.

Nazis on the Run

Many perpetrators of the Holocaust escaped justice. Should Germany prosecute as accessories to murder the elderly few who remain alive?

Helping Hitler: An Exchange

What Do the Hohenzollerns Deserve?

The controversy is about more than just the long shadows cast by the Nazi period