Controversy has raged about Hitler's military and economic preparations for war. Did he intend a world war or a series of short conflicts? Richard Overy argues that Hitler drew the lesson from 1914-18 not that a major war should be avoided but that Germany should prepare more systematically so that, this time, she would win.
The short-lived settlement was signed on September 30th, 1938.
Milton Goldin explores Himmler’s ambitions to establish the SS as a ‘state within a state’, and highlights schemes the Nazis devised to finance the organisation through industrial enterprise and plundered Jewish assets.
A profile of the issues raised by A level questions on this history topic.
Richard Wilkinson challenges the consensus of contempt for the Nazis' leading diplomat.
Max Beloff reviews a fresh account of de Gaulle and the Free French movement.
How did Britain come to make the promises to Poland that resulted in a declaration of war against Germany in September 1939? Sir Nicholas Henderson unravels a curious story.
Ian Locke investigates an intriguing and little-known attempt to commandeer Third Reich assets as reparations - and its mixed results.
Paul Preston amplifies recent claims that Franco offered safe havens to fugitive Nazis
Why did Goering and Goebbels fall out over a performance of Richard III? Gerwin Strobl on this and other intriguing reasons why the Bard mattered to the Third Reich.
