In 1550, the city of Magdeburg, Germany was under siege. It faced a crisis of government because the army encircling the city was not a foreign army, but a domestic one. The citizens of Magdeburg were ...

How do citizens respond if the government mandates obedience to evil? That is not a new question. Let’s consider historical evidence. Charles V of the Holy Roman Empire sought to eradicate the ...

The German Dreyfus affair seems not to have ended with the confession of Schroeder, the murderer of Helling. Notwithstanding this confession of guilt, the Magdeburg authorities refused to release ...

The case of Rudolf Haas, the Magdeburg Jewish merchant accused of the murder of his bookkeeper, Helling, continues to hold public attention in Germany. Notwithstanding the fact that Schroeder had ...