As Berlin burned, Germany’s elite SS divisions—Totenkopf, Das Reich, and others—were reduced to shadows of their former strength. In desperation, the Nazis deployed foreign SS troops and teenage ...
Clockwise from lower L: Raven Whitley, Elizabeth Laidlaw, Guy Van Swearingen, and Tim Decker in Berlin at Court Theatre Credit: Michael Brosilow An ascendant fascist right, a lame-duck “opposition ...
THE POLITICAL ORCHESTRA: THE VIENNA AND BERLIN PHILHARMONICS DURING THE THIRD REICH By Fritz Trumpl University of Chicago Press, $50, 344 pages, illustrated No one can say that the topic of classical ...