All articles tagged with #nazi past
Austria opened a refurbished police station in the house where Adolf Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn, aiming to move the site away from neo-Nazi pilgrimage after a long ownership dispute and a 2016 government seizure; the building now functions as a modern police facility with a memorial outside, signaling a shift toward democracy, rule of law and human dignity.
The upcoming Karl Lagerfeld retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute raises questions about how to handle the designer's family's Nazi past and his own Islamophobic caricatures. Lagerfeld's privileged background allowed him to move to Paris in 1952 and begin his career there. In the last years of his life, Lagerfeld wrecked his reputation with his reactionary views. The article questions whether the retrospective will hide his crude views behind haute couture or undertake a critical contextualization of his work.