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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...