Germany

David Welch attributes the Nazi leader's electoral success to much more than slick propaganda.

Omer Bartov asks how the armies of lords and kings became the forces of peoples and nations.

Alan Steinweis considers how a Victorian historian's hero-worship became entangled with the propaganda visions of the Nazis a century later.

From Hitler's suicide to the Berlin blockade - Friedemann Bedurftig looks at the consequences of defeat, the process of denazification and reconstruction and the growing Cold War tensions between the former Allies in charge of the ruins of the Third Reich.

Michael Biddiss looks at how the victorious Allies dealt with the unprecedented prosecution of genocide and mass atrocities by the Nazi leadership and how fair the proceedings were to those in the dock.

Omer Bartov traces the impact of people's armies from Napoleon to the First World War and beyond.

Bruce Martin on whether nostalgia or modernism will win out in plans to reshape the centre of Berlin.

Anthony McElligott argues that municipal confrontation and the decline of civic virtue in the 20s and 30s played an important part in letting the Nazis rise to power in Germany.

Elizabeth Manning looks at how an Enlightenment ruler enlisted opera in his struggle to homogenise and reinforce the Habsburg empire.