Right-wing historian Karol Nawrocki defied the pollsters by winning the Polish presidential election on Sunday. Nawrocki polled 50.89% of the vote, narrowly beating Warsaw’s liberal mayor Rafal Trzaskowski who scored 49.11%. No gloss can be put on this result. In the first round of the elections, far-right parties came second, third and fourth. Support of […]
‘Lili Marlene’: the song that haunted the Nazis
One song and two singers came to represent opposition and resistance to Hitler in the Second World War. The most beautiful and certainly most popular song of the Second World War was Lili Marlene. A poem written in 1915, it was first recorded by German singer Lale Andersen in 1939 and was titled Das Mädchen unter […]
