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Between the 9th and 10th of November, eighty-years-ago today, vast quantities of glass littered Germany’s  streets after Nazi  smashed Jewish homes, stores and synagogues. This became known as Kristallnacht (in Yiddish…

On the morning of November 11th, 1918, American soldiers were approaching a German machine gun post outside the village of Chaumont-devant-Damvillers in Lorrains. Against the orders of his friend, Sergeant Ernest Powell,…

On May,11,1933 Edmund headed a routine faculty meeting that was to prove his last. A letter to the University’s curator, from Bernhard Rust, the Prussian Minister for Science, Art and…

Clairvoyant’s Secret Revealed by a Victorian Horse David Lewis – author of Triumph of the Will? During the 20s and 30s, showman Eric Jan Hanussen, a Moravian Jew masquerading as…

Hypnotising Away Hysteria David Lewis – author of Triumph of the Will? In the previous blog, I described the use of electric shocks to treat what we would, today, describe…

How did military doctors, one hundred years ago, treat the thousands of soldiers whose minds, rather than their bodies, had been wrecked by the conflict? In Triumph of the Will?psychologist…

In my latest book, Triumph of the Will? I describe how Hitler was hypnotised on two occasions. The first was in October 1918 while being treated for hysterical blindness by…

Clairvoyant’s Secret Revealed by a Victorian Horse David Lewis – author of Triumph of the Will? During the 20s and 30s, showman Eric Jan Hanussen, a Moravian Jew masquerading as…

How did military doctors, one hundred years ago, treat the thousands of soldiers whose minds, rather than their bodies, had been wrecked by the conflict? In Triumph of the Will?…