World Capital Germania

By Gene Meyer | May 16, 2026 |

Haunting echoes of the past. In his book Stay Alive: Berlin, 1939-1945, author Ian Buruma writes about Hitler’s grand plan to remake the city into the World Capital Germania. It…

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“It’s just a phase”

By Gene Meyer | October 22, 2024 |

“It’s just a phase.” That was what my German-born Jewish great grandmother Henrietta Giballe Previn is said to have remarked on the rise of Adolph Hitler to power in the…

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