Third Reich

Adolf Hitler with Harold Rothermere, 1934. Alamy.

Gutter Press

Why did newspapers maintain a policy of isolationism in the midst of a world embroiled in war?

Book sale in the Łódź Ghetto, 1940 © Collection Walter Genewein/akg-images.

The Underground Library

As the Nazis enclosed Warsaw’s Jewish quarter in a ghetto, a librarian set up a secret children’s library. 

Robert Ritter, head of the Racial Hygiene and Demographic Biology Research Unit of Nazi Germany’s Criminal Police, conducting an interview with a Romani woman, 1936.

The Roma Holocaust

Europe’s Roma were the victims of Nazi genocide during the Second World War, but their persecution did not end in 1945. 

Hitler with Todt (centre) and Speer (far right) looking at the model of a motorway viaduct, 3 October 1937.

Organisation Todt

‘Hitler’s architect’ Albert Speer denied all responsibility for the ruthless exploitation of millions of slave labourers. Yet he was head of a bureaucratic machine that did just that. 

Adolf Hitler attends the Nazi harvest festival held at Bückeberg in central Germany, 1934.

The Nazis Enter History

Will current crises make it possible to study the ‘uniquely evil’ Third Reich as if it were just another period of the past?

Three unidentified Jewish women in the Kutno ghetto, Poland, 1940, by Hugo Jaeger.

Ghetto Girls

The Jewish women who played a vital role in the Polish resistance against the Nazis.

Hitler

An Odious Story

A narrative history from the peak of Hitler’s powers up to his demise.