The persecution and destruction of the Jews of Germany at the time of the Black Death. Introduction...
Germany
Introduction The experience of democracy that has lasted just over ten years is characterized by strong social...
The Weimar Republic came to bear for many the humiliation of World War I and the blame...
This cut-and-paste aesthetic was wholly embraced by Berlin Dada as a form of political and social critique....
Germany’s superior woodworking and stuccowork traditions aided in refashioning the imported Baroque and Rococo styles. Introduction On...
There is a suggestion that the name is in fact a veiled pun on a Low German...
Hitler used the referendum to legitimize his move to take the title Führer und Reichskanzler (Führer and...
The text, first published in 98 C.E., has a long legacy. By Emily T. Simon Ask a...
Hitler took advantage of severe conditions at the time that were extremely favorable for the fast growth...
Hitler identified himself as Christian and said “the [Nazi] Party represents the standpoint of Positive Christianity”. Introduction...
Fascism is a far-right theory of government that opposes the political philosophies of the Englightenment and the...
The German Resistance movement consisted of several disparate strands that were ultimately unable to bring Hitler down....
A woman tells the story of her Holocaust survival through her embroidered art. “I am not going...
Up to 500,000 Roma and Sinti were murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators. Introduction The murder...
On November 10, 1958, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev fired the opening salvo of what would become known...
René Carmille, director of the National Statistical Service (SNS), stepped in to control and process Nazi census...
Seventy-seven years ago, a telegram bearing a horrifying and unforgettable message reached America’s foremost Jewish leader. It...
Without a doubt, the most influential concept in German university history is that of the “unity of...
The poster became a cheap transmitter of these various messages and combined visual arts with psychological methods...
Germany, which had only unified in 1870, was a latecomer to the colonial game. By David Carlin...
When the German parliamentary building went up in flames, Hitler harnessed the incident to seize power. By...
The effectiveness of the propaganda machinery altered perception, thus reality. Abstract In his epic Mein Kampf, Adolf...
From a medieval manuscript / British Library, Public Domain The heroic character of Beowulf, the nature of leadership...
The end of the Weimar Republic. Adolf Hitler greets President Paul von Hindenburg, in Potsdam, Germany, on...
Reichstag Building / Creative Commons Reconsidering traditional assumptions about the connection between the First World War and the...
Bundesarchiv Bild 119-0779 / German Federal Archive, Wikimedia Commons The democratic Weimar Republic fell with dizzying speed. By...
Andrew Dickson explores the vibrant, experimental and precarious culture that developed in Weimar Germany in the 1920s...
This image shows the machine works of Richard Hartmann in Chemnitz, Germany. Hartmann was one of the most successful entrepreneurs...
Lars Ø Ramberg, “Palast des Zweifels” on the roof of the Palast der Republik, January 26. –...
A portrait of Charlemagne wearing the crown of the Holy Roman Empire (fifteenth century painting by Albrecht Dürer)...