Gary J. Bass

Feb 22, 2025 | nytimes.com | Gary J. Bass

THE PROSECUTOR: One Man's Battle to Bring Nazis to Justice, by Jack FairweatherOn a gray wintry day in December 1970, Willy Brandt, the first postwar Social Democratic chancellor of West Germany, fell to his knees at a Warsaw monument to the Jews who had fought there against the Nazis. His gesture has come to exemplify what the Germans resonantly call Vergangenheitsbewältigung, the striving to cope with the past.

Feb 22, 2025 | flipboard.com | Gary J. Bass

What is the AfD, the far-right German party supported by Vance and Musk? Concern is growing over the far-right Alternative for Germany party’s rise ahead of the German election. Its U.S. supporters include Elon Musk and JD Vance. As Germans head to the polls Sunday, one party has attracted more attention both at home and abroad than any other: the far-right Alternative …

Oct 20, 2023 | foreignaffairs.com | Jennifer Lind |Gary J. Bass |Clara Fong |Jennifer LindNovember

In This Review In This Review Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia On May 3, 1946, a warm spring morning in Tokyo, the marshal bellowed for the audience to rise, and 11 judges filed into the courtroom for the opening of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East. The judges, from numerous Allied countries, were watched by well over a hundred Japanese spectators and nearly that many Japanese and foreign journalists.

Jul 20, 2023 | kirkusreviews.com | Gary J. Bass |Richard Rhodes

A magnificent account of a central reality of our times, incorporating deep scientific expertise, broad political and social knowledge, and ethical insight, and Idled with beautifully written biographical sketches of the men and women who created nuclear physics. Rhodes describes in detail the great scientific achievements that led up to the invention of the atomic bomb.