World War II

NIMBYs and Hitler: Readers Respond

Ben Urwand's Book About Hollywood Execs Letting Hitler Off the Hook Is Interesting, But He Oversells It

It's not news that Hollywood waited too long to confront Nazi Germany. It fell to the Little Tramp, Charlie Chaplin, to fire the first major broadside in 1940 with his hilarious satire The Great Dictator. By that time Paris had already fallen, and two years had passed since Kristallnacht, when the w ... More >>

Best L.A. Novel Ever: Bret Easton Ellis' Less Than Zero vs. Chester Himes' If He Hollers Let Him Go (Final)

L.A. Weekly has been holding a tournament to find the best L.A. novel ever, featuring 32 of our favorites in head-to-head matchups. For further reading: *Best L.A. Novel Ever: The Tournament Begins *Best L.A. Novel Ever: More Matchups The greatest L.A. novel of all time starts with a bad dream. Bob ... More >>

A Film Showing Grandchildren of Auschwitz Survivors Who Tattoo the Numbers on Themselves

It's been over sixty years since the Holocaust, but time has not faded the memories for those who survived it. And as part of this year's 27th Israel Film Festival, a tribute will be made to the Holocaust survivors and their families with a special screening of the documentary Numbered at the Saban ... More >>

Capturing the Carnage

Two Plays About Big Ideas

Cassiopeia and Ganesh Versus the Third Reich Ruminate on Heaven and Earth

Paul Schimmel's Last Show as MOCA's Chief Curator Features Artists Who Destroy Their Canvases

Fort MacArthur Reenactment Combines Vikings, Nazis, Confederates and Other Armies Through Time

"Bloody hell, men!" Boom. Pop-pop-pop-pop-pop. Boom. Three men in tan uniforms lie inert on a cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Their remaining comrades radio for help and cower behind their jeep, trying desperately to shoot the Germans hiding in the bushes. The canon sounds again, causin ... More >>

L.A. Museum of the Holocaust's Tree of Testimony Tells Survivors' Stories Through Video Art

Last week was Yom HaShoah, the official day of Holocaust remembrance, a commemoration with good intentions that nonetheless brings up feelings of ambivalence in many Jews I know. One friend remarked, "Every day is Holocaust remembrance day at my house," indicating she does not share her parents' pa ... More >>

The Survivor Mitzvah Project

The Longest Day Starts at 9 a.m.

Shoah

On Holy Ground

Sweet and Sour Chicken Soup

Food Will Win The War: Amazing Propaganda Video

It was a simpler time. A time of corn cobs hanging over the head of Adolf Hitler. Of flirty potatoes seducing us with Betty Boop eyelashes. Of obese blonde children meting out American superiority with their thunderous thighs. It was WWII, the golden era of propaganda, and no one did it better tha ... More >>

Garbo: The Spy Review

Peace in Our Time

Polish Film Festival Preview

Rach 'n' Roll

Captain America Review

Imminently More Worthy Than A Fun Run

Hangar on to Yourself — You've Never Seen Toy Sheds Like These!

Community Day of Remembrance

Jesse James Rolls With a Dude Wearing a Nazi Hat: Did Anyone Inform Him That Kat Von D is Latina?

LatinaKat Von D reigns supreme.​Jesse James has a Nazi problem -- that we know already. But is it in the past? Us magazine this week has a photo of the boyfriend-to-the-stars biker cruising in a convertible ... with a guy wearing a Nazi hat. Really, Jesse? Besides the fact that you should fi ... More >>

Shoah: A Film About Death

Claude Lanzmann talks Spielberg, survival and the blurring of documentary and fiction

Putting out for Hitler: America's craziest preacher claims Axis powers infiltrated our underpants

​Each Monday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets around Los Angeles. The Truth About Juvenile Deliquency Author: Dan Gilbert Date: 1943 Publisher: Zondervan Publishing, Grand Rapid ... More >>

Atomic Aftermath

Getty Villa Statue Exhibit

Inglourious Basterds' Final Solution

In a triumph of his will, Tarantino makes Holocaust revisionism ridiculously fun

Tuskegee Airmen Exhibit

Breaking the Code

Late News: Black Rights Pioneer in the Valley Dies at 104

Tomorrow's L.A. Times carries an obituary for Ida Kinney, a onetime Rosie the Riveter who became a civil rights pioneer. Working at a Lockheed plant in Burbank during WWII, Kinney was barred from joining the plant's union. She fought this policy and helped overturn it.The Times' piece and previous p ... More >>

Now We Sample the Season's Picture Books ...

The Coffee Table

Spike Lee's Miracle at St. Anna: Cheesy

Buffalo-soldier mozzarella

Miracle Milestone

Spike Lee talks about his first foray into the war-movie genre

Terpsichorean Titan

Media City Ballet pays tribute to Aram Khachaturian

The Accomplices

Guerrillas of Orange

Paul Verhoeven opens the Black Book on World War II

Decline and Fall

Dangerous Liaison

From mathematics to war

From Mediocre to Monster

John O’Keefe’s brilliant new play finds the pulse of our times

Rolling Back the Years, or Blame It on Brokaw

Big Science, Little People

Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen

Deadlyland

Hanks and Spielberg’s bloody theme park

Bombs Away

Revising history in Pearl Harbor

In the Skies and in the Streets

The war, and the anti-war protests, go badly

They Saved Hitler's Head

The Führer as model tyrant

If the Shoe Retrofits . . .

AMP's blitzed Cinderella

Vicissitudes of the Victor

Honor, history at stake as Filipino veterans press for recognition

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