The Hamas attack as an attack on a Western-dominated order

2023-10-21 07:11:34

British historian Richard Overy argues that the history of the Second World War begins long before 1939. With an impressive wealth of material, he draws attention to the global war, which, not least, ended a phase of colonialism that lasted 500 years. In the bar of a Berlin hotel we talk to him and his German colleague Sönke Neitzel about a necessary broadening of the historical perspective, German navel-gazing and the neglect of a history of war.