February, 2014

For Olympics, dictators get out their feather dusters

For Olympics, dictators get out their feather dusters

A good host always tidies up the house before the guests arrive. But some hosts have more to shove into the closet than others. For the 1936 Olympics, Hitler got busy sweeping the more blatant horrors of his regime under the rug. He even went so far as to remove official anti-Jewish signs from Berlin […]

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The spy who guided me

The spy who guided me

Spies lurked everywhere in Paris 1936,crouching behind the croissants, whispering behind their whiskies, sneaking under the snails. Nazis spies, of course, but also Italian, British, Red Russians, White Russians, and equal-opportunity spies who would work for the highest bidder, no matter what their politics. Plenty of American spies, too, of course, posing behind respectable facades […]

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