Germany

Christopher Ray argues that Hitler's high-profile plan for invading Britain was a blind: his main intention was to fool Stalin into believing he was safe.

Brian Winston casts a critical eye over Leni Riefenstahl's cinematic paean to Nazi aesthetics.

Uwe Oster on the motorway prototype that Hitler hijacked.

John Rohl reveals monarchical mentalities and structures in Imperial Germany.

Richard Evans looks at the social and intellectual pressures that forced Germany to rethink how and why it punished wrongdoers.

Graham Darby spins a thread to guide you through the labyrinth of The Causes of the Thirty Years War.

How important was the man to the movement? Andrew Pettegree asks what would have happened to the Reformation had the Diet of Worms witnessed its leader’s martyrdom.

David Elliott looks at how Mussolini, Stalin and Hitler used culture to their own ends and how the ramifications of this has continued to the present.

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.