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.
Third Reich
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?
Backing Tyranny
The consequences of the German aristocracy’s Faustian pact.
The Postwar History of a Nazi Film
How a 1940 antisemitic propaganda weapon was turned against Israel.
A Modern Martyr
The quiet resistance of Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
The Exhumation of a Nazi Perpetrator
The origins of SS General Otto von Wächter’s rise to power.
Why is the Public so Obsessed with the Nazis?
The history of the Third Reich remains as popular as ever. Why?
1933: Death of a Democracy
On 1 January 1933, Germany was a democracy with a range of political parties. By the end of the year its parliament was a rubber stamp for Adolf Hitler’s will.
Stauffenberg: Portrait of a Plotter
The views and actions of the man who tried to kill Hitler.
Himmler's Witch Hunt
The Third Reich’s obsession with a pure Germanic past led to a renewed interest in the witch hunts of early modern Germany.