PARIS -- At a time when Europe's future seems so murkily ill-defined, when people fret about paychecks and their abrupt disappearance, a jittery currency and suffocating debt, the past might seem the last place to look for salvation. Yet, in recent days, history has tugged at national debates from Istanbul to Edinburgh like some gravitational...
VILNIUS, LITHUANIA -- The ''double genocide'' wars that pit Stalin's crimes against Hitler's are raging in wide swathes of Europe and every now and again along comes a gust from the past to stoke them. The 70th anniversary this month of the Nazi adoption at Wannsee of annihilation plans for the Jews provided one such squall. Yes, the past is still...
BERLIN -- The German authorities on Wednesday won their most recent victory in a continuing battle to prevent circulation of Hitler's seminal work in Germany when a Bavarian court ruled that a British publisher could not release annotated excerpts of''Mein Kampf.'' The publisher, Peter McGee, had planned to provide German newsstands with 100,000...