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Nazi Nukes in Them There Hills?

The search for long-lost Nazi plunder is a hobbyist’s dream. Tales of buried treasures, hidden rooms, and occult ephemera are countless, stoked on, no doubt, by Nazi-loot-finding heroes like Indiana Jones. But it’s not often that these usually futile searches are for nukes. Enter 70-year-old Peter Lohr, who has been scanning the surface of […]

By Zachary Solomon

The Ancient Hebrew Version of the Hippocratic Oath

Filled with ideas like exercise, healthy eating, and proper hygiene, parts of the earliest medical book written in Hebrew sound quite modern. But there’s plenty in the Sefer Refuot—Book of Medicines—that reads a bit more ancient. The treatise, ascribed to the physician Asaph ben Berechiah, who lived in Israel between 4 and 6 CE, discusses […]

The German Teens Who Sang and Danced Their Nazi Resistance

In a time of rising authoritarianism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, and fear, a group of young people insisting on their freedoms expressed themselves through dance. Donning checkered shirts, shorts and stockings, and signature edelweiss floral badges, this group of teenagers in Nazi Germany called themselves the Edelweiss Pirates. They first organized in the late 1930’s in […]