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3 weeks ago | 
demorgen.be | Nicholas Casey
AchtergrondOorlogsverledenDe Volksbund heeft een aparte missie: alle in oorlogen omgekomen Duitsers lokaliseren en fatsoenlijk begraven. Maar wat doe je als je pakweg een SS-officier opdelft? Nu het radicaal-rechtse AfD om zich heen grijpt, komt de Duitse organisatie op glibberig terrein.
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3 weeks ago | 
demorgen.be | Nicholas Casey
AchtergrondOorlogsverledenDe Volksbund heeft een aparte missie: alle in oorlogen omgekomen Duitsers lokaliseren en fatsoenlijk begraven. Maar wat doe je als je pakweg een SS-officier opdelft? Nu het radicaal-rechtse AfD om zich heen grijpt, komt de Duitse organisatie op glibberig terrein.
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Nicholas Casey |Malcolm Hillgartner |Adrienne Hurst |Tanya Perez |John Woo |Aaron Esposito | +2 more
When Daniel and Victoria Van Beuningen first toured their future home, a quiet villa in the Polish city of Wroclaw, it had been abandoned for years, its windows sealed up with bricks. But something about its overgrown garden spoke to them. They could imagine raising chickens there, planting tomatoes and cucumbers. They could make something beautiful out of it, they thought - a place where their children could run and play.
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Nicholas Casey
Sin embargo, la pareja quería saber más, y en sus indagaciones conocieron a la familia Meinecke de Heidelberg, Alemania, unos hermanos ancianos que dijeron haber nacido en la casa. Durante una larga tarde, le mostraron a la pareja fotos del lugar en tiempos más felices, antes de la guerra, pero también ofrecieron a los Van Beuningen una sorprendente advertencia: la pareja podría encontrar los restos de algunos soldados alemanes enterrados en el jardín.
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Nicholas Casey
As the German right ascends, the nation is still grappling with its fascist past - and how to handle its remains. A skull found at a grave containing around 1,000 bodies near Hungary's border with Serbia and Croatia. Credit...
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Nov 16, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Nicholas Casey
On a rainy afternoon in Madrid, John Banville, the celebrated Irish author, was in the Prado Museum searching for a Caravaggio. The painting in question - "Ecce Homo," or "Behold, the Man" in Latin - had a back story that was worthy of one of Banville's novels. The work portrays Jesus before his crucifixion and for years had been attributed to a lesser-known Spanish painter's even lesser-known student. When it surfaced at an auction house in 2021, the starting price was set at around $1,800.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
sanjuandailystar.com | Nicholas Casey
By Nicholas CaseyPedro Almodóvar is widely considered Spain’s greatest living filmmaker, but he sees himself as a writer first — a “fabulist,” in his telling. His extravagant plots took twists that were hard to predict or even pin down.
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Sep 13, 2024 | 
infobae.com | Nicholas Casey
Últimas NoticiasPolíticaEconomíaDólar hoyDeportesSociedadPolicialesNewslettersBooks and LiteratureWriting and WritersMoviesContent Type: Personal ProfileAlmodovar, PedroMadrid (Spain)The Room Next Door (Movie)Last Dream, The (Book)Death and DyingCreativity[Estamos en WhatsApp. Empieza a seguirnos ahora]Pedro Almodóvar es considerado el mejor cineasta español vivo, pero él se considera ante todo un escritor, un "fabulista", según sus propias palabras.
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Sep 13, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Nicholas Casey
[Estamos en WhatsApp. Empieza a seguirnos ahora] Pedro Almodóvar es considerado el mejor cineasta español vivo, pero él se considera ante todo un escritor, un "fabulista", según sus propias palabras. Sus extravagantes tramas daban giros difíciles de predecir e incluso de precisar. La historia de dos hombres que forman un vínculo cuidando a dos mujeres en coma en Hable con ella.
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Nicholas Casey |Moises Saman
Listen to this article, read by Prentice Onayemi Image Credit... The New York Times Sudan's war has left nearly 11 million people displaced from their homes - more than the entire population of New York City, and currently the single largest population of internal refugees anywhere in the world. One U.S. State Department official estimated in May that as many as 150,000 people might be dead in the fighting, though the chaos has made an accurate body count impossible.
