Hitler used three weapons to control the German people: The racial group targeted most by this persecution was Germany’s Jews. Their rights were progressively taken away, including their German ...

A family in eastern Germany will lose ownership of a house bought in 1939, after the Nazi regime forced the previous Jewish ...

On 1 September 1939, the British ambassador in Berlin issued an ultimatum to the German government urging it to cease all aggressive activities in Poland and withdraw. Two days later, at 10.00am ...

At 11.15am, the news that the country is at war is communicated to the population of the United Kingdom. Chamberlain's famous words are followed by government announcements warning that air raids ...

German Annexations and Invasions Increase Control Over More People As Germany annexed territories in 1938 and 1939 from Austria and Czechoslovakia, it built new camps and prisons in those areas.

Attendees at a German American Bund's Nazi rally give a Nazi salute as Bund members hail the swastika banner in New York City ...

For those concerned by Formula 1’s contemporary dalliances with controversial regimes – the term ‘sportswashing’ is now ...

Richard J. Evans, The Third Reich at War, 1939-1945 (London, 2008). Saul Friedländer, The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 (London, 2007). Peter Fritzsche, An Iron Wind: ...

Their rights were progressively taken away, including their German citizenship. The onset of war in 1939 escalated the nature and frequency of racist violence. The confusion of war gave the Nazis ...