The Zeitgeist of Tyranny: What Should Museums Do?

  In the century that has followed the rise and near-triumph of Nazism between the 1920s and 1945, history has judged not just Adolf Hitler, his government, paramilitary organizations, and army. We have also become aware of the almost total submission of German civic institutions to Nazism:슠 the courts, universities, banks, hospitals, arts organizations all…