Backing Tyranny
The consequences of the German aristocracy’s Faustian pact.
Third Reich
The Postwar History of a Nazi Film
How a 1940 antisemitic propaganda weapon was turned against Israel.
Buying Nazism
In the early years of Nazi rule, the vagueness of much Nazi ideology enabled many Germans to see in Nazism what they wanted to see.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A Modern Martyr
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was one of the earliest establishment figures to denounce the Nazi regime. In April 1945, his quiet resistance led him to the scaffold.
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: The Death of German 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.
The Man The Allies Ignored
The Polish volunteer who infiltrated Auschwitz.