World War II

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Paulette Cooper, With Help From the Voice, Discovers Her Heartrending Past

In December, I finally got the chance to meet Paulette Cooper when we had breakfast near the offices of the Voice. For many of us who toil in this business of reporting on Scientology, we have no greater hero. Paulette's 1971 book, The Scandal of Scientology, was one of the first exposes of the chur ... More >>

Best in Show: 'Die, Nazi Scum!' at Andrew Edlin Gallery

Plus: Alex Webb at Aperture Gallery

Late Spring

Plus: Alex Webb at Aperture Gallery

Garbo: The Spy

Plus: Alex Webb at Aperture Gallery

In a Twist, Germans as Targets in WWII Melodrama Habermann

Plus: Alex Webb at Aperture Gallery

Captain America Ignores Its Roots for Easy Money

Plus: Alex Webb at Aperture Gallery

Paulette Cooper's Statement on Tom Cruise Winning a Humanitarian Award

Paulette Cooper​Last week, at a ceremony in Beverly Hills, the Simon Wiesenthal Center gave Tom Cruise its annual Humanitarian Award. As we pointed out earlier, this did not go down well with people who wondered why such a famous pro-justice organization would give an award to a man almost syn ... More >>

Cobra Woman

Paulette Cooper​Last week, at a ceremony in Beverly Hills, the Simon Wiesenthal Center gave Tom Cruise its annual Humanitarian Award. As we pointed out earlier, this did not go down well with people who wondered why such a famous pro-justice organization would give an award to a man almost syn ... More >>

Adelheid

Paulette Cooper​Last week, at a ceremony in Beverly Hills, the Simon Wiesenthal Center gave Tom Cruise its annual Humanitarian Award. As we pointed out earlier, this did not go down well with people who wondered why such a famous pro-justice organization would give an award to a man almost syn ... More >>

Sandra

Paulette Cooper​Last week, at a ceremony in Beverly Hills, the Simon Wiesenthal Center gave Tom Cruise its annual Humanitarian Award. As we pointed out earlier, this did not go down well with people who wondered why such a famous pro-justice organization would give an award to a man almost syn ... More >>

Tea Party Candidate Pictured Repeatedly Wearing a Nazi Uniform For Fun

​When America watched its sweetheart Sandra Bullock get humiliated by her philandering husband Jesse James, the salaciousness was compounded by the fact that not only was the man sleeping with a porn star, but he was sleeping with a porn star who liked to dress up like to dress up like a Nazi. ... More >>

Nazi Propaganda Laid Bare in A Film Unfinished

​When America watched its sweetheart Sandra Bullock get humiliated by her philandering husband Jesse James, the salaciousness was compounded by the fact that not only was the man sleeping with a porn star, but he was sleeping with a porn star who liked to dress up like to dress up like a Nazi. ... More >>

Mega Q&A: Author Dave Tompkins on His New Book, How To Wreck a Nice Beach: The Vocoder from World War II to Hip-Hop

​A few weeks ago, the music writer Dave Tompkins took a podium in one of NYU's many windowless annexes to promote his upcoming book, How To Wreck a Nice Beach: The Vocoder From World War II To Hip-Hop. Behind him was a still from The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms frozen on the projector screen. In ... More >>

The True Glory

​A few weeks ago, the music writer Dave Tompkins took a podium in one of NYU's many windowless annexes to promote his upcoming book, How To Wreck a Nice Beach: The Vocoder From World War II To Hip-Hop. Behind him was a still from The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms frozen on the projector screen. In ... More >>

The Bandit

​A few weeks ago, the music writer Dave Tompkins took a podium in one of NYU's many windowless annexes to promote his upcoming book, How To Wreck a Nice Beach: The Vocoder From World War II To Hip-Hop. Behind him was a still from The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms frozen on the projector screen. In ... More >>

Bitter Victory

​A few weeks ago, the music writer Dave Tompkins took a podium in one of NYU's many windowless annexes to promote his upcoming book, How To Wreck a Nice Beach: The Vocoder From World War II To Hip-Hop. Behind him was a still from The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms frozen on the projector screen. In ... More >>

My Name Is Ivan

​A few weeks ago, the music writer Dave Tompkins took a podium in one of NYU's many windowless annexes to promote his upcoming book, How To Wreck a Nice Beach: The Vocoder From World War II To Hip-Hop. Behind him was a still from The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms frozen on the projector screen. In ... More >>

Cannes 2009: Inglourious Basterds Is Amoral, Crude, Juvenile--In Other Words, Quintessential Tarantino

Our film critic J. Hoberman is filing regular dispatches from this year's Cannes Film Festival. It's time, finally, to hear about Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds. Inglourious Basterds--a World War II spaghetti western even more drenched in film references than blood Wednesday dawned, Ingl ... More >>

Cheeky WWII Comedy Improbable Frequency Employs Exhausting Wordplay, Awful Puns

Our film critic J. Hoberman is filing regular dispatches from this year's Cannes Film Festival. It's time, finally, to hear about Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds. Inglourious Basterds--a World War II spaghetti western even more drenched in film references than blood Wednesday dawned, Ingl ... More >>

Spike Lee's WWII Epic Miracle at St. Anna

Our film critic J. Hoberman is filing regular dispatches from this year's Cannes Film Festival. It's time, finally, to hear about Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds. Inglourious Basterds--a World War II spaghetti western even more drenched in film references than blood Wednesday dawned, Ingl ... More >>

A Secret

Our film critic J. Hoberman is filing regular dispatches from this year's Cannes Film Festival. It's time, finally, to hear about Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds. Inglourious Basterds--a World War II spaghetti western even more drenched in film references than blood Wednesday dawned, Ingl ... More >>

A G.I.'s Strange War Tale

It's opium-smoking headhunters to the rescue!

Letters

It's opium-smoking headhunters to the rescue!

The Rape of Europa

It's opium-smoking headhunters to the rescue!

The Unknown Soldier

It's opium-smoking headhunters to the rescue!

From the Front: Yaeger on a Season "Under the Influence of the Dogs of War"

It's opium-smoking headhunters to the rescue!

Behind Enemy Lines

Letters sees WWII from Japanese POV, as Eastwood continues to chip away at the hero myth

Print the Legend

Clint Eastwood's WWII drama strips away the myths surrounding the Greatest Generation

Fathers and Daughters

A pair of vets

Hookers Infest a Bombed-Out, Post-War Tokyo

A pair of vets

A Place in the Sun: Retro Remembers RKO's Renaissance Man

A pair of vets

'Complete Idiot's Guide to War'

A pair of vets

Slaughterhouse Five

Will 'Shock and Awe' Create Another Dresden?

Ashes and Diamonds

'Blithe Spirit—The Windsor Set' at the Met

The IBM Link to Auschwitz

Researchers Uncover Records of the Company's Work at Death-Camp Complex

A War on Love

Researchers Uncover Records of the Company's Work at Death-Camp Complex

Rounding Up the 'Enemy'

Sixty Years After It Jailed Japanese Americans, Would the U.S. Consider Another Ethnic Internment?

Plastic Fantastic

Bohemian Rhapsodies

Codes Unknown

Bohemian Rhapsodies

Rubble Indemnities

Bohemian Rhapsodies

Final Solutions

How IBM Helped Automate the Nazi Death Machine in Poland

In the Line of Fire

How IBM Helped Automate the Nazi Death Machine in Poland

Romancing the Republic

Disney and the U.S. Military Whitewash Pearl Harbor and Woo Patriots

Days of Infamy

Disney and the U.S. Military Whitewash Pearl Harbor and Woo Patriots

The Drowned and the Saved

Disney and the U.S. Military Whitewash Pearl Harbor and Woo Patriots

In Visible Cities

Return Trips

Letters

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World War II Chic

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