Holocaust

The web series “Dispatches From Quarantine” — which has been chronicling the coronavirus quarantines of famous entertainers as they stay at home — featured what turned out to be Carl Reiner’s final interview. In it, the 98-year-old Reiner, who died Monday, talks about his love of comedy, meeting his wife…

Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. German authorities have banned a neo-Nazi group that was being investigated for plotting terrorist attacks and had bought land to set up a separatist far-right community. Interior Ministry spokesman Steve Alter on Tuesday announced the ban on…

VIENNA (Reuters) - Construction of Austria's first public monument naming all the country's Holocaust victims began on Monday, a further step by Adolf Hitler's native land towards confronting an issue it has long struggled with.For decades after World War Two, Austria denied responsibility for crimes committed by the Nazis, arguing…

It’s one thing for churches to advocate belief in the supernatural. It’s another when they’re literally asking God to bring about another Holocaust — not metaphorically — in order to “destroy the Jews like vermin.” That was allegedly the case at Brazil’s Geracao Jesus Cristo church, where Pastor Tupirani da…

In late March, the organisers of Ruhrtriennale, an annual music and arts festival that takes place in the Ruhr area of Germany, announced that the Cameroonian philosopher and post-colonial theorist, Achille Mbembe, would be delivering the keynote address at this year's event. Mbembe, a professor at the University of the…

A German neo-Nazi spent years plotting the murder of a local mayor after attending a speech where he defended refugees, prosecutors have claimed. Stephan Ernst, a 46-year-old with previous convictions for violence towards immigrants, went on trial Tuesday for the murder of Walter Luebcke, a regional council chief in the…

Communications executive Michelle Slavich is exiting Warner Bros. Pictures for a top role at Netflix, Variety can report exclusively, where she will oversee strategy for all content verticals. Slavich has been named the streamer’s vice president of publicity, where she will lead efforts for series, film and documentary programming in…

Photo courtesy of MAPSRick Doblin, PhD, (@rickdoblin) is the founder and executive director of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). He received his doctorate in public policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, where he wrote his dissertation on the regulation of the medical uses of psychedelics and marijuana…

Tens of thousands of anti-racism protesters took to the streets in cities across Germany this weekend, in what may be the largest demonstrator turnout outside of the United States. In Berlin, organizers expected 1,500 people to show up. Instead, an estimated 15,000 protested in Alexanderplatz, Berlin’s city center, with signs…

The sign above the steel gates of Auschwitz reads "arbeit macht frei" - work sets you free. It was, of course, a chilling lie, an evil hoax. But there was one surprising source of temporary escape inside the camps:  music. Under the bleakest conditions imaginable, prisoners wrote and played music,…