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Rest of World News: Too often, shaming has nothing to do with moral lapses

Lyndsey Stonebridge’s biography of the US political theorist illuminates the titanic forces of love and evil which animate civilisation - be it the second World War or now. It is timely and magisterial

Through an Auschwitz commandant’s family life, Jonathan Glazer’s chilling new film reminds us of the banality of evil, says Charlotte Higgins, the Guardian’s chief culture writer

She described the camp as a ‘paradise’ – but always claimed she knew nothing about what went on there. How credible was her defence?

The popularity of historical dramas in film and on television has caused much controversy, as historians take issue with fictional scripts being passed off as fact, and treated as such by viewers lacking the specialist education to allow them to tell the difference. The Crown, much of which was pure invention, is an obvious example. But one apparently more insidious arrives in our cinemas this week. The Zone of Interest, directed by Jonathan Glazer, is very loosely based on the 2014 novel of the

I visited Auschwitz (Sabrina pictured left) as part of a two-day conference organised by the European Jewish Association to coincide with last weekends Holocaust Memorial Day.

Jonathan Glazer’s film – which has been nominated for five Oscars, including Best Picture – is set on the literal fringes of Auschwitz, with seemingly idyllic images of family life bordering the horror on the other side of the fence

Jonathan Glazer's A24 film, The Zone of Interest, is a masterpiece: grotesque, macabre and eulogistic. You'll never want to watch it again.

When commentators compare the war in Gaza to the Holocaust, they choose their words badly. Whatever one might think of it, Israel’s invasion cannot be equated with the organised slaughter of more than six million men, women and children, most of them Jewish. Indeed, no event can, not even the Rwandan genocides, nor the Khmer Rouge’s disastrous ‘collectivisation’ drive in the 1970s.