One can only hope that freedom of speech may prevail, once and for all, and not only in Germany. We usually associate the Gestapo with mass actions, the roundup of Jews or gypsies or communists, but ...

Launch the interactive Genocide Under the Nazis Timeline. Adolf Hitler, leader of the largest party in the German parliament, achieves power legally and is sworn in as Chancellor of Germany. Adolf ...

In January 1933, Adolf Hitler, a popular German politician who had launched his career in the beer halls of Munich, reached the top of German government in a political compromise. Known for ...

Since first learning the history of Hitler’s rise to power, I often wondered how could the German people let such a monster take over their country? In only a few years, the Nazis rose by enflaming ...

In perhaps one of the worst miscalculations in modern political history, Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany in January 1933 in the hopes that he could successfully form a coalition ...

On May 10, 1933, university students in 34 university towns across Germany burned over 25,000 books. The works of Jewish authors like Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud went up in flames alongside ...