Feed MRSS-S thomas_mann_a, english.elpais.com en-us https://english.elpais.com Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:37:15 GMT https://english.elpais.com/culture/2026-04-15/how-could-it-have-happened-the-fundamental-question-about-nazism-that-continues-to-haunt-germany.html Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:37:15 GMT https://english.elpais.com/culture/2026-04-15/how-could-it-have-happened-the-fundamental-question-about-nazism-that-continues-to-haunt-germany.html Marc Bassets Veteran historians such as Winkler, Aly, and Longerich address in their new books ‘the question of all questions, about the avoidability of the National Socialist dictatorship’ Veteran historians such as Winkler, Aly, and Longerich address in their new books ‘the question of all questions, about the avoidability of the National Socialist dictatorship’ Berlin Adolf Hitler Heinrich Himmler Joseph Goebbels Albert Speer Thomas Mann Bertolt Brecht brandstaetter images (Getty Images) Germany Jewish civilians during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in German-occupied Poland from April 19 to May 16, 1943. Jewish civilians during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in German-occupied Poland from April 19 to May 16, 1943. <p>How could it have happened? That is the question. German historians, like Captain Ahab with the white whale, continue to obsessively pursue it. More than <a href="https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-11-23/the-world-is-experiencing-a-new-era-of-impunity-80-years-after-the-nuremberg-trials.html" target="_self" rel="" title="https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-11-23/the-world-is-experiencing-a-new-era-of-impunity-80-years-after-the-nuremberg-trials.html">80 years after the end of Nazism</a>, they still haven’t found a definitive or complete answer.</p><p><a href="https://english.elpais.com/culture/2026-04-15/how-could-it-have-happened-the-fundamental-question-about-nazism-that-continues-to-haunt-germany.html" target="_blank">Seguir leyendo</a></p> https://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-09-05/sebastiao-salgados-final-thoughts-if-we-lived-thousands-of-years-we-would-think-differently-we-would-understand-the-mountains.html Fri, 05 Sep 2025 11:28:40 GMT https://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-09-05/sebastiao-salgados-final-thoughts-if-we-lived-thousands-of-years-we-would-think-differently-we-would-understand-the-mountains.html Juan Villoro Writer Juan Villoro began working on a profile of the Brazilian photographer without suspecting that he would have to adjust the verb tenses due to his death in May Writer Juan Villoro began working on a profile of the Brazilian photographer without suspecting that he would have to adjust the verb tenses due to his death in May Sebastião Salgado Ruanda Malaria Wim Wenders Mario Vargas Llosa Werner Herzog Thomas Mann Annie Leibovitz The Guardian Pablo Ortiz Monasterio Henri Cartier-Bresson Robert Capa Sebastião Salgado (Contacto) Sebastião Salgado Landscape in Saint Andrews Bay, South Georgia (2009), from the 'Genesis' project. Landscape in Saint Andrews Bay, South Georgia (2009), from the 'Genesis' project. <p>“I’m not the best photographer in the world, I’m the hardest-working,” <a href="https://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-09-04/sebastiao-salgado-and-the-wild-poetry-of-the-amazon.html" target="_self" rel="" title="https://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-09-04/sebastiao-salgado-and-the-wild-poetry-of-the-amazon.html">Sebastião Salgado</a> told me in a soft voice. His almost perfect Spanish was enhanced by the calm, melodious cadence of his Portuguese: “A photographer belongs to a breed apart: I’m not an artist; a journalist reconstructs reality, but a photographer doesn’t. I have the privilege of looking, nothing more.”</p><p><a href="https://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-09-05/sebastiao-salgados-final-thoughts-if-we-lived-thousands-of-years-we-would-think-differently-we-would-understand-the-mountains.html" target="_blank">Seguir leyendo</a></p> https://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-12-25/germany-chronicles-of-an-imaginary-nation.html Wed, 25 Dec 2024 04:00:00 GMT https://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-12-25/germany-chronicles-of-an-imaginary-nation.html Marc Bassets Thirty-five years after the fall of the German Democratic Republic, a ‘mental wall’ continues to divide the country, including in its literature. EL PAÍS took a trip through Berlin, Jena and Leipzig in search of the great German novel, written today by authors like Jenny Erpenbeck and Clemens Meyer Thirty-five years after the fall of the German Democratic Republic, a ‘mental wall’ continues to divide the country, including in its literature. EL PAÍS took a trip through Berlin, Jena and Leipzig in search of the great German novel, written today by authors like Jenny Erpenbeck and Clemens Meyer Berlin Leipzig Günter Grass Alfred Döblin Thomas Mann Stasi Christa Wolf © Estate Sibylle Bergemann / OS / © Estate Sibylle Bergemann / OSTKREUZ (EL PAÍS) Germany, chronicles of an imaginary nation Image from Berlin’s Potsdamer Platz near the Wall in 1990, one of the works included in an exhibition currently showing at the C/O Berlin gallery. Image from Berlin’s Potsdamer Platz near the Wall in 1990, one of the works included in an exhibition currently showing at the C/O Berlin gallery. <p>Jenny Erpenbeck spent the night the <a href="https://english.elpais.com/international/2024-07-28/a-demolished-communist-palace-and-other-rubble-how-berlin-is-managing-its-gdr-buildings-and-monuments.html">Berlin Wall fell</a>, November 9, 1989, in the manner of Fabrice del Dongo, the protagonist of <i>The Charterhouse of Parma </i>who found himself amid the chaos of the Battle of Waterloo, yet was completely unaware that it was taking place around him. Erpenbeck had met up with some friends that night and slept at one of their homes, where there was no television or telephone. She didn’t hear about what had happened until the next morning on the radio. A definitional moment of humanity took place just a few blocks away, and she missed it.</p><p><a href="https://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-12-25/germany-chronicles-of-an-imaginary-nation.html" target="_blank">Seguir leyendo</a></p> https://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-11-16/himmler-in-the-sauna-hitler-in-love-eichmann-playing-ping-pong-richard-evans-brings-the-nazis-closer-to-make-them-even-more-horrifying.html Sat, 16 Nov 2024 04:05:00 GMT https://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-11-16/himmler-in-the-sauna-hitler-in-love-eichmann-playing-ping-pong-richard-evans-brings-the-nazis-closer-to-make-them-even-more-horrifying.html Jacinto Antón In his new book, the British historian profiles 24 of the Third Reich’s criminals, bursting the cliché of pathological monstrosity In his new book, the British historian profiles 24 of the Third Reich’s criminals, bursting the cliché of pathological monstrosity Richard J. Evans Adolf Hitler Heinrich Himmler Rudolf Hess Thomas Mann Adolf Eichmann Leni Riefenstahl Joseph Goebbels Waffen SS Berlin Albert Speer Núremberg API (Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images) Himmler in the sauna, Hitler in love, Eichmann playing ping-pong: Richard Evans brings the Nazis closer to make them even more horrifying Adolf Hitler greeted by the crowd at Obersalzberg. Adolf Hitler greeted by the crowd at Obersalzberg. <p>It is not at all common for a book on the history of <a href="https://english.elpais.com/international/2023-03-10/the-hitler-diaries-a-modern-robin-hood-tale-or-revisionism-of-nazi-crimes.html">Third Reich criminals</a> to put you in a sauna with a naked Heinrich Himmler. Richard J. Evans, one of the world’s leading experts on Nazi Germany, chooses to open his biographical portrait of the sinister character with the image of the Reichsführer SS shorn of his flashy black uniform, in fact naked, in a Finnish sauna, showing “a swollen, pinkish belly, with the navel strangely in relief, like a delicate rosebud.”</p><p><a href="https://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-11-16/himmler-in-the-sauna-hitler-in-love-eichmann-playing-ping-pong-richard-evans-brings-the-nazis-closer-to-make-them-even-more-horrifying.html" target="_blank">Seguir leyendo</a></p><img src="https://images.english.elpais.com/resizer/v2/MV6VESCRKVEPBJCCR2UKPPVDXM.jpg?auth=e5abf6d8435cf32551c3ecba63f36670d46551f8a02be731c42256b99e985284" width="3320" height="2284" alt="Hitler reviews women of the German Labour Service in 1937. Near him, on the left, is Rudolf Hess."></img>