The Romans extended their control into German territory and developed a nearly unbroken line of fortifications over...
Germany
Never before in history had two adversaries spent so much time arming each other for war. In...
The persecution and destruction of the Jews of Germany at the time of the Black Death. Introduction...
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...
Lucy and Suzanne’s story shows that quiet, persistent rewriting of the narrative of oppression can be a...
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 fin-de-siècle generation condemned the rationalistic individualism of liberal society and the dissolution of social links in...
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...
It’s final collapse was brought about by Allied military victories plus the open rebellion of the people....
Fascism is a far-right theory of government that opposes the political philosophies of the Englightenment and the...
The field where wily Germanic warriors halted the spread of the Roman Empire. “This is the soil...
The German Resistance movement consisted of several disparate strands that were ultimately unable to bring Hitler down....
The author is led to his ancestral shtetl and the extermination of its inhabitants by Nazi bullets...
By Von Diaz and Emma Bowman Around Memorial Day of 2000, Emily Aho took her then 75-year-old...
The Pope and the president both opted to look away from the greatest humanitarian crisis of our...
The German city-state was run by merchant families who put trade and economy above residents’ welfare. As...
A woman tells the story of her Holocaust survival through her embroidered art. “I am not going...
Shirt movements embodied the idea of a homogeneous community, based on a racial social or cultural identity....
After Adolf Hitler ordered the “blood purge” (Night of the Long Knives) of 1934, he replaced the...
The women chose psychological sabotage and developed unique strategies. Introduction Nearly all the 1.3 million people sent...
Italian dictator Benito Mussolini declared an axis between Berlin and Rome, coining a term that would be...
The Nazi invasion of Russia ended the Pact and shifted the Soviet Union from the Axis Powers...
A stealthy group of skiing commandos took out a crucial Nazi facility and stopped Hitler from getting...
Groups planning a coup of some kind had existed in the German Army and the military intelligence...