Lack of clearance meant stranded students had to travel afar westward, not to the nearby Russian border
An impulsive 200-km drive to Stalag Luft III where a prison break by Allied soldiers led to the epic war movie
Complex plots, religious questions, political drama, fairy tales and shifting versions of reality, vodka’s story more than makes up for its lack of colour
Timothy Snyder’s new book revisits the charred remains of the Jewish tragedy—and the Nazi horror—with a deeper understanding of the present and its fault lines