Alfred Hitchcock

Sublime Recapitulation: Alfred Hitchcock’s “€œNew”€ Holocaust Film

But of our work, the work of our order and in particular the work of this monastery, a part"€”indeed, the substance"€”is study, and the preservation of knowledge. Preservation of, I say, not search for, because the property of knowledge, as a divine thing, is that it is complete and has been ...

Hate Speech Derby: Mohammed vs. Auschwitz

In June 1949, LIFE magazine ran a piece about the forced confession of Nazi propagandist Hans Fritzsche at the hands of Soviet interrogators. Written by anti-Nazi author Konrad Heiden, "€œWhy They Confess"€ compared Fritzsche's treatment by his Soviet captors to his treatment by the Western ...