Adolf Hitler’s first year in power offers a reminder of the damage that was done by one man who rose to power legally following a series of political and economic crises in Germany, Hitler was the ...

Germany’s parliamentary election on March 5, 1933 was the most fateful in the nation’s history, securing Hitler’s hold on power and launching 12 years of despotic rule and, eventually, a world war.

On May 10, 1933, university students in 34 university towns across Germany burned over 25,000 books. The works of Jewish authors like Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud went up in flames alongside ...

One can only hope that freedom of speech may prevail, once and for all, and not only in Germany. We usually associate the Gestapo with mass actions, the roundup of Jews or gypsies or communists, but ...