The internal logic of the modern nation-state reaches its conclusion in authoritarian political systems like Italian Fascism, German National Socialism, and Chinese and Soviet communism. ... Detlev Peukert argued compellingly that in fact German National Socialism “pushed the utopian..…

East and West Germans celebrate on Berlin Wall at Brandenburg Gate 1989 At the end of World War I, one of my grandfathers was in German Imperial Army, while the other was officer on submarine. This inner- German frontier was part of Iron Curtain, the 4,300-mile boundary that cut off..…

A few months ago, the German government declared it “has knowledge about efforts by Chinese authorities to influence Chinese students and academics in Germany as well as German academics doing research on China.” ..…