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Historian Johannes Spohr's grandfather, Rudolf Spohr, as an ordnance officer of the German Army High Command shortly before his trip to Crimea, August 1942. (Courtesy/ family collection)
April 15, 2026, 3:44 am
My grandfather, the Nazi: A German historian helps families unravel forebears’ crimes
After discovering his own patriarch’s role in the Holocaust, scholar Johannes Spohr offers workshops that confront uncomfortably specific truths amid a wider culture of remembrance
By Robert Philpot
Economist E.J. Antoni is interviewed in front of art depicting the Nazi warship Bismarck, December 9, 2024. In August 2025, President Trump nominated Antoni to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics. (Screenshot via YouTube/ via JTA)
August 16, 2025, 2:34 pm
E.J. Antoni, Trump’s new favorite economist, thinks a Nazi warship is ‘hard not to love’
President’s nominee to run Bureau of Labor Statistics has also had exchanges about German victimhood with pundit Candace Owens, even as many isolated her for her vocal antisemitism
By Andrew Lapin
The 12th century Crusader fortress Belvoir, at Israel's Kochav HaYarden National Park in the Jordan Valley (Shmuel Bar-Am)
May 27, 2023, 10:05 am
Between bloodbaths, Jerusalem’s Crusader-era Christians, Muslims coexisted in peace
In ‘Jerusalem Falls,’ Prof. John Hosler analyzes what happened in the Holy City between the battles of the Middle Ages – and finds unexpected religious tolerance
By Rich Tenorio
The “Grande Ludovisi” sarcophagus, with a battle scene between Roman soldiers and Germans, in a marble sarcophagus from 251/252 CE. (Museo Nazionale Romano di Palazzo Altemps, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)
May 1, 2023, 3:31 am
Roman army may have included kosher-observant Jews 2,000 years ago, study finds
High numbers of Jews likely served in the legions that brought down Jerusalem and could have constituted even up to 15% of the vast empire’s army
By Melanie Lidman
College of the Holy Cross visual arts professor Amanda Luyster, guest curator of the new exhibit 'Bringing the Holy Land Home,' shows a reconstructed conception of a floor design at Chertsey Abbey, England, bearing images of the Crusades, in Worcester, Massachusetts, on March 8, 2023. (Photo / Laura C. Arena)
April 4, 2023, 4:15 am
In the Holy Land, clashing Crusaders and Muslims led to a fruitful cultural exchange
Through April 6, an exhibit at Massachusetts’s College of the Holy Cross shows how the violent religious wars also had an indelible artistic and aesthetic impact on Europeans
By Rich Tenorio
British soldiers in Tobruk, Libya, surrendering to German forces on July 8, 1942. (AP Photo)
August 28, 2022, 10:23 pm
80 years ago, Nazis almost knocked Britain out of WWII to take the entire Mideast
In ‘1942: Britain at the Brink,’ historian Taylor Downing looks at bitter defeats for the UK that nearly threatened the empire, including Jews who took haven in Mandatory Palestine
By Rich Tenorio
A still from the film 'Operation Mincemeat.' (Courtesy Lev Cinemas)
April 15, 2022, 8:55 pm
Behind new film ‘Operation Mincemeat,’ the true story of WWII’s greatest deception
Out Friday, the movie tells how Britain used the body of a dead vagrant to trick Hitler into dropping Nazi defenses in Sicily, enabling its capture and turning the tide of the war
By Robert Philpot
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