Nazi Town

In February 1939, more than 20,000 Americans filled Madison Square Garden for an event billed as a "Pro-American Rally." Images of George Washington hung next to swastikas and speakers railed against the "Jewish controlled media" and called for a return to a racially "pure" America.

In February 1939, more than 20,000 Americans filled Madison Square Garden for an event billed as a “Pro-American Rally.” Images of George Washington hung next to swastikas and speakers railed against the “Jewish controlled media” and called for a return to a racially “pure” America. T

“In a cautionary tale of the challenges facing a company town trying to control its ‘brand,’ Kirrily Freeman explores the complicated roots of the town of Vichy's sense of identity. While ‘Vichy’ is now synonymous with the collaborationist regime of Marshal Pétain, the roots of this town's sense of identity, and of aggrievement, victimhood and stigmatization lie farther in its past, and shape it today.”
- Lynne Taylor, University of Waterloo, Canada

“In a cautionary tale of the challenges facing a company town trying to control its ‘brand,’ Kirrily Freeman explores the complicated roots of the town of Vichy's sense of identity. While ‘Vichy’ is now synonymous with the collaborationist regime of Marshal Pétain, the roots of this town's sense of identity, and of aggrievement, victimhood and stigmatization lie farther in its past, and shape it today.”
- Lynne Taylor, University of Waterloo, Canada

From the New York Times reporters who first uncovered S.S. officer Aribert Heim's secret life in Egypt comes the never-before-told story of the most hunted Nazi war criminal in the world.

On 4th November 2011, Uwe Mundlos and Uwe Böhnhardt were found dead in a burning camper van in Eisenach, a small town in Thuringia in central Germany. The two men had been familiar figures to the German secret service. Over a decade earlier, they had been placed under surveillance as suspected neo-Nazis, and a number of informants had mentioned the young men by name. But Mundlos and Böhnhardt had managed to disappear as if into thin air, helped by a network of friends. They became alleged right-wing terrorists. They shot people, and planted bombs. But they never claimed their crimes.