Go to the Content Thursday, 9 February 2012
Your search for "Hitler" produced 71 items.
| 1. The ECB fear factor | December 16, 2011 |
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Only the European Central Bank has the unlimited wherewithal to save Europe from the abyss now. Panic is beginning to overwhelm the eurozone. Italy and Spain are caught in... | |
| 2. The political benefits of having royal ancestors | July 14, 2011 |
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And why Otto von Habsburg deserves to be recognised as one of the European Union's founding fathers. Dynasties have a bad press the farther east and south you go. The... | |
| 3. A life at the heart of history and politics | July 7, 2011 |
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Otto von Habsburg, an improbable doyen of the European Parliament, dies at 98. Otto von Habsburg, who died this week at the age of 98, served 20 years in the European... |
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| 4. The quiet Austrian | May 12, 2011 |
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Austria's 'nice guy' vice-chancellor is now in the spotlight. In another life, Michael Spindelegger might have been in a hole holding bones instead of pressing the flesh of... |
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| 5. Defining ‘the crime of crimes' | April 20, 2011 |
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Should the slaughter of ‘social and political groups' be considered genocide? There is a controversial addition to the debate. Stanford University historian Norman Naimark... |
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| 6. WikiLeaks' greatest victim? The Atlantic alliance | December 9, 2010 |
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The ‘war on terror' poisoned some silos of intelligence co-operation. Now WikiLeaks is a pest on the whole farm. The greatest victim in the WikiLeaks affair threatens to... | |
| 7. Russia shines light on one of history's dark spots | December 2, 2010 |
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Russia's acknowledgement of responsibility for Katyn is good news for Russians as well as for Poles. The resolution adopted by Russia's State Duma on 26 November... | |
| 8. The end of history in Europe's ex-captive nations? | March 4, 2010 |
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Central and eastern Europe may be joining the European club of the ahistorical and apathetic. Where would they be without their past, the ex-captive nations? (Or... | |
| 9. Taking lessons from past failures | January 28, 2010 |
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Many anxious analyses have been spawned by the financial crisis of the past two years, but perhaps too little attention has been paid to the social and political fall-out... |
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| 10. It all looks so much simpler from across the Channel | October 22, 2009 |
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Unoccupied Britain would do well to reflect on occupied Britain before talking about others' wartime history. Tweak history a bit. Imagine that in 1940 Hitler and Stalin... | |
| 11. Energetic northerner | October 1, 2009 |
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Sweden's enterprise and energy minister has a work ethic forged on the edge of the Arctic Circle. The energetic Maud Olofsson brings a distinctly northern perspective to the... |
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| 12. The democracy paradox | September 16, 2009 |
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The West cannot switch from ‘activism' regarding others' flawed democracies to abstention the next. Elections stolen in Iran, disputed in Afghanistan, and caricatured in... | |
| 13. What Vladimir Putin did not say at Westerplatte | September 10, 2009 |
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What Russia's prime minister should have said at the commemoration of the start of the Second World War in Gdańsk. Honoured guests, dear Excellencies. | |
| 14. Russia continues to treat history as an unseemly playground | September 3, 2009 |
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Insults, excuses and not knowing how to say ‘sorry' should be the behaviour of children, not grown-ups. Naughty and tiresome children like insults (both overt and... | |
| 15. The inflation of genocide | July 24, 2009 |
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A Lithuanian philosopher rejects political calls for the Soviet Union's slaughter of Lithuanians to be labelled an act of genocide. | |
| 16. Do mention the war, but try to get the facts right | June 11, 2009 |
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If a country wants its wartime history to be treated fairly by others, it needs to get a sense of perspective. Britain is gripped by a feeling of historical injustice. The... | |
| 17. Simple brushstrokes of evil black and brilliant white | June 4, 2009 |
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Russia can do better than bully other countries to abandon complexities and fit their history into a Soviet straitjacket. Forget gas, nukes or Iran. The deep divide between... | |
| 18. Have you heard the one about the Russian gas dispute? | May 28, 2009 |
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The problem with mixing comedy and politics is that your neighbours might not enjoy being the butt of the joke. YouTube may not be the most scholarly repository of material... | |
| 19. The road ahead for the Roma looks as rocky as ever | May 14, 2009 |
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In the grip of a financial crisis, what price on governments paying attention to a despised minority? Few topics arouse more controversy in the ex-communist region of Europe... | |
| 20. Beware the prophets of doom and their ghoulish words | February 26, 2009 |
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The economic situation in eastern Europe may be bad but that does not mean regional meltdown is on the way. If you believe the merchants of doom, the future in eastern... | |
