On the evening of the 10th May 1933 a crowd of 40,000 Germans gathered in Berlin’s Opera Square to listen to a speech by one ...

On May 10, 1933, university students in 34 university towns across Germany burned over 25,000 books. The works of Jewish authors like Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud went up in flames alongside ...

Berlin 1933 – Diary Of A Metropolis tells the story of how Berlin, the vibrant hub of modernity, became Germany's staunch capital city in step with the Third Reich. Contemporary journals, letters and ...

While researching my doctoral dissertation on the origins of the Nazi political police, the Gestapo, I had occasion to review a sampling of investigative case files from one of the major offices, the ...

On social media, there are often posts that ask how you would act if you lived in Germany in the Weimar Republic era.

As the new year dawns, Berlin is fractured and divided. Street battles intensify, and cracks deepen as the National Socialists have become the strongest party in Germany. Now Reich chancellor, Hitler ...

Since first learning the history of Hitler’s rise to power, I often wondered how could the German people let such a monster take over their country? In only a few years, the Nazis rose by enflaming ...

The horrific assassination of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk seems to be offering the Trump administration its own Reichstag fire.

On Tuesday, San Diego State University’s College of Arts and Letters hosted a significant online event featuring David North, chairman of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web ...

The epic German period drama will close with a final 8-episode arc leading up to the Nazis seizing power in 1933. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief It’s official: After more than a year of ...