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Friday essay: the Nuremberg Trials at 80 – could such a reckoning ever happen again?

Friday essay: the Nuremberg Trials at 80 – could such a reckoning ever happen again?

Nuremberg, often called ‘history’s greatest trial’, officially opened on October 18 1945. It held senior Nazi leaders to account for war crimes...

17.10.2025 20

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Jan Lanicek

Friday essay: who was Anne Frank?

Anne Frank has come to symbolise many things. Can we ‘restore her as a human being’?

15.08.2025 10

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Jan Lanicek

A new definition of antisemitism from Universities Australia is attracting criticism – two historians explain why

At the core of the ongoing debate over definitions are genuinely different understandings of what constitutes antisemitism.

11.03.2025 10

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Jan Lanicek

80 years after the liberation of Auschwitz, amid rising antisemitism, the memory of the Holocaust remains contentious

The liberation of Auschwitz is being commemorated in the shadow of rising antisemitism in Australia and globally.

26.01.2025 9

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Jan Lanicek