The Weimar Republic came to bear for many the humiliation of World War I and the blame...
Hitler
Hitler used the referendum to legitimize his move to take the title Führer und Reichskanzler (Führer and...
Hitler took advantage of severe conditions at the time that were extremely favorable for the fast growth...
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...
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...
Italian dictator Benito Mussolini declared an axis between Berlin and Rome, coining a term that would be...
Groups planning a coup of some kind had existed in the German Army and the military intelligence...
Fascists promote a type of national unity that is usually based on (but not limited to) ethnic,...
Chamberlain tried appeasement by endorsing a diplomatic initiative floated by fascist Italian dictator Benito Mussolini to resolve...
Vital Hasson was born into the Jewish community of Salonica, Greece. After World War II, he was...
Chamberlain and Wilson had aimed to prevent war entirely; instead they made it almost inevitable. In 1941,...
With the stroke of a pen 75 years ago, two men changed the world and sealed the...
He went from fringe political to chancellor of Germany within a few years and from chancellor to...
Widely held beliefs in eugenic “science” and pervasive fear of foreigners led the US Congress to pass...
More than seventy British men and women were convicted – mostly in secret trials – of working...
The humiliating failure of the vaunted Maginot Line thrilled the vast majority of Germans, who adored their...
The appeasement policy pursued by Britain and France was founded on the premise that Germany was maltreated...
From the summer of 1944 till the end of the war in Europe, the US fielded a...
When the German parliamentary building went up in flames, Hitler harnessed the incident to seize power. By...
High culture played an important political role in Hitler’s Germany. References to music, history, philosophy, and art...
The effectiveness of the propaganda machinery altered perception, thus reality. Abstract In his epic Mein Kampf, Adolf...