Officially known as the German Reich, Nazi Germany was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when it was headed by Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party, who governed by way of a totalitarian dictatorship ...

IN THE fall of 1946 an American commission consisting of government officials, educators, and scientists toured Germany. (I have a particularly vivid memory of the striking personality of Reinhold ...

One night in 1933, after Hitler had taken power, a Jewish journalist in Berlin awoke from uneasy dreams, drenched in sweat. “The thought occurred to me,” she later wrote, “that I might not be the only ...

9 B.C.: Pagan Germanic tribes check advancing Romans in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, ending northward spread of Roman civilization, bounding the Roman Empire by the Danube and Rhine. c.700 A.D.

Since the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, Americans have become increasingly concerned about the threat posed by fascist groups to the country’s democratic order. Meanwhile, one of the first ...

The German government banned the controversial “Reich citizen” group and arrested its leaders. Also called the Reichsburger movement, the group rejects the legitimacy of the modern German state, ...

Born in 1945 and raised by a father who piloted a B24 heavy bomber on 45 combat missions during World War II, I grew up around many other members of the Greatest Generation and realized that fact long ...