Nazi soldiers launched a simulated attack on the German-run Gleiwitz radio station on the evening of August 31, 1939. The ...

The decision comes after a decade of legal wrangling over a restitution claim that is likely to be the last of its kind.

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 ...

Born from the defeat of World War One, the new German government, the Weimar Republic, faced a series of challenges economically, politically, socially and internationally. What challenges were ...

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 ...

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

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: ...

We will accurately determine the sum that we will demand," he added. At dawn on 1 September, 1939, Germany bombed the Polish city of Wielun, a town with no military significance. The aim was to ...