Dr Goebbels: The Man Who Made Hitler?
Robert Pearce investigates the career of the Third Reich’s ‘evil genius’.
Germany
The Munich Conference
The agreement permitting Germany’s annexation of the Sudetenland was signed on 29 September 1938.
Social Outcasts in Nazi Germany
An obsession with Aryanism and eugenic theory was the catalyst for Nazi policies of repression and extermination against gypsies and other ‘asocials’ – the forgotten victims of the Third Reich.
Hitler and the Law, 1920-1945
Ken Rise explains the process by which Hitler’s will became the law in Nazi Germany.
Germany's Convict Exports
Richard Evans tells the little-known story of how 19th-century Germany attempted to solve its prison problems by secretly sending felons to the United States as immigrants.
Adolf Hitler becomes German Chancellor
Germany's new Chancellor took power on 30 January 1933.
French Appeasement
Andrew Boxer considers explanations for France’s disastrous foreign policy between the wars.
A Song for Hitler
Why is the sordid murder of Horst Wessel, a young Nazi storm troop leader in Berlin in early 1930, so important? Nigel Jones recalls his death and the black legend that sprang from it.
Hitler and the Holocaust
Alan Farmer assesses the personal responsibility of the Führer
Otto von Bismarck and the German Right
After he fell from power, Bismarck became a mythical hero figure of the right. The legend of the ‘Iron Chancellor’ was wielded by militarists, conservatives, and eventually, Adolf Hitler.