Photo via WikiMedia Commons Earlier this week, Germany's Institute for Contemporary History (IfZ) announced details of its plan to publish the first local German edition of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf since World War II. Scheduled for release in January 2016, the IfZ sees its project as a scholarly work, picking apart and pointing out the flaws within the ideological basis of Nazism. It will add over 1,250 pages of academic critique (and 4,000 annotations) to Hitler's original 748-page Read more [...]

A fellowship at the George C. Marshall Center for European Security Studies means a year in the Bavarian Alps at Garmisch-Partenkirchen.(Photo: George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies)The Army has announced application rules, deadlines and other information for two prestigious fellowship programs for active-component officers of certain functional areas.The fellowships are for fiscal 2016-2017 at the George C. Marshall Center for European Security Studies Fellowship or the Asia-Pacific Read more [...]

MUNICH -- Old copies of the offending tome are kept in a secure "poison cabinet," a literary danger zone in the dark recesses of the vast Bavarian State Library. A team of experts vets every request to see one, keeping the toxic text away from the prying eyes of the idly curious or those who might seek to exalt it. "This book is too dangerous for the general public," library historian Florian Sepp warned Read more [...]

From a traveler’s perspective, Nuremberg — Bavaria’s second city — has it all: excellent museums, thought-provoking history, glorious red-sandstone Gothic architecture and a charming Old Town encircled by Read more [...]