Retro Berlin?
Bruce Martin on whether nostalgia or modernism will win out in plans to reshape the centre of Berlin.
Bruce Martin on whether nostalgia or modernism will win out in plans to reshape the centre of Berlin.
Anthony McElligott argues that municipal confrontation and the decline of civic virtue in the 20s and 30s played an important part in letting the Nazis rise to power in Germany.
Elizabeth Manning looks at how an Enlightenment ruler enlisted opera in his struggle to homogenise and reinforce the Habsburg empire.
Michael Burleigh on the origins of Volkswagen.
Kenneth Asch on Berlin's opera house, the Deutsche Staatsoper.
Hitler's march into the demilitarised Rhineland heralded Churchill's 'gathering storm' – but could the Fuhrer's bluff have been called and the Second World War prevented? Sir Nicholas Hederson, who as Britain's ambassador in Washington during the Falklands crisis saw diplomatic poker eventually turn to war, offers a reassessment of the events of 1936.
Jonathan Wright and Paul Stafford examine the origins and significance of the document which has been claimed as the Fuhrer's premeditated masterplan for European domination.
Ian R. Mitchell examines the museums of East and West Germany which provide contrasting views to German history.
Michael Burleigh charts the career of one of the pillars of the German scholarly establishment under the Third Reich an invaluable middle-man in 're-educating' his pupils and massaging research to suit Nazi ideology.
Ian Mitchell explores the Märkisches Museum devoted to the history of Berlin and the Mark Brandenburg.