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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke remarked how he "can only imagine the history books" that will be written about the people of 2025, and likened it to 1933 Germany on Wednesday. The Democrat appeared ...

Yale historian Henry Ashby Turner has made a career out of debunking myths about German history. In his 1986 book German Big Business and the Rise of Hitler he painstakingly refuted the Marxist dogma ...

Vladimir Putin’s regime has always been authoritarian. But since Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, something has shifted. Putin has completely shut down Russian civil society and ...

Boycotted by virtually the entire world, suffering from a lapse of her 1933 trade surplus 37 percent below that of 1932, and embarrassed by a 16 percent decrease of her exports during 1933 while world ...

The month that Adolf Hitler came into power in 1933, German unemployment had reached the total of 6,013,000, within 10% of its all-time high. On Aug. 1 there were only 563,000 registered unemployed in ...