Spiegel’s Barbarossa cover is beyond bad framing – it reflects a country where war is being made to seem conceivable again
For the anniversary of Operation Barbarossa, the German name for the attack on the Soviet Union of 22 June 1941, Germany’s declining yet still dominant mainstream news magazine Der Spiegel has dedicated a long title story and a sensationalist cover to Berlin’s last open war in, as the Germans used to say back then, the East. So far, so expected. There is no doubt, after all, that this was a historic as well as horrific event.
Launching their surprise attack with millions of troops and the explicit intention to wage a war…
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