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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. |
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A landmark in folklore was published on December 20th, 1812. Published in History Today, Volume: 62 Issue: 12, 2012
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Only the infirmity of purpose displayed by the key-figure at the top, John Wheeler-Bennett writes, prevented the revolt against Hitler, which had failed in Berlin, from being continued successfully from Paris |
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Even after the Bomb-plot had failed, John Wheeler-Bennett shows how the Wehrmacht conspirators in Berlin had it in their grasp to overthrow Hitler and stop the war. |
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John Wheeler-Bennett's account, with many illuminating details, of the attempt that nearly put an end to the Third Reich. |
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C.E. Hamshere shows how, a fortnight after the Armistice of 1918, the elusive German Commander in East Africa surrendered at Abercorn in what is now Zambia. |
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Elizabeth Wiskemann recounts the story of one of Europe’s richest and most hotly-disputed industrial territories |
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Mayer Amschel Rothschild died on September 19th 1812. |
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The future emperor was born on August 31st, AD 12. |
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As the Eurozone countries wrestle with the fate of the single currency, Mark Ronan discovers parallels in Wagner’s Ring cycle. |
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As a boy growing up in Munich Edgar Feuchtwanger witnessed the rise of Germany’s dictator at extraordinarily close range. |
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Albert Speer’s plan to transform Berlin into the capital of a 1,000-year Reich would have created a vast monument to misanthropy, as Roger Moorhouse explains. |
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Hitler's future companion was born in Munich on February 6th 1912. |
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Keith Lowe on the dilemmas faced by a victorious but financially ruined Britain in its dealings with postwar Germany. |
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Frederick the Great, the man who made Prussia a leading European power, was born on January 24th, 1712. |
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King George V and Kaiser Wilhelm II pose together in 1912. However, the Kaiser had mixed feelings towards Britain and the First World War broke out two years later. |
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