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Economic and political crises faced by Germany's Weimar Republic
Learn about the economic and political crises facing Germany's Weimar Republic after...
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How did Joseph Goebbels's use of propaganda and terror aid Adolf Hitler's campaign for chancellor?
Learn about how Joseph Goebbels's use of propaganda and terror aided Adolf Hitler's...
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How did Hitler seize power in Germany?
Overview of Adolf Hitler's rise to power.
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Learn about the rise of Adolf Hitler, the Nazi Party, and the anti-Semitism they fomented in pre-WWII Germany
In 1933 Adolf Hitler's National Socialists were voted into power, and the campaign...
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Rise of Hitler and Nazi terror tactics
Learn how Adolf Hitler secured dictatorial power in Germany.
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How Hitler systematically discriminated against Jews
Overview of the discrimination and exclusion of Jews in Germany following Adolf Hitler's...
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How did Adolf Hitler speak at the 1934 Nürnberg Rally?
Learn about Adolf Hitler's public speaking style by listening to him delivering the...
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White Rose resistance against Nazi dictatorship
Overview of the White Rose.
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July Plot: A failed attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler
Learn about the July Plot of 1944, in which Claus, Count Schenk von Stauffenberg,...
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Hitler's final days in Berlin, April 1945
As Soviet troops entered Berlin and the Battle of Berlin raged on, Adolf Hitler committed...
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Watch President Roosevelt outline his Four Freedoms and learn how Britain defeated Germany's Luftwaffe
The Royal Air Force fending off German bombers during the Battle of Britain in the...
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The 1936 Berlin Olympics and Nazi propaganda
Overview of the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games, including Nazi propaganda and the performance...
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Fate of Hitler's Home Guard
With German military losses mounting, Adolf Hitler ordered all able-bodied men between...
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Youth in Hitler's Reich: The abuse of a generation
Overview of the Hitler Youth.
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How the halt command saved British troops in Dunkirk
Overview of the German invasion of France and the Low Countries, 1940.
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German invasion of Poland: Start of World War II
Overview of the German invasion of Poland (1939), which marked the beginning of World...
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Turning point of World War II: D-Day and its aftermath
Overview of the Normandy Invasion.
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Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler, c. 1933.
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Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler reviewing German troops in Poland, September 1939.
Heinrich Hoffmann, Munich
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler, 1930s.
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Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler in Brunswick, Germany, 1931.
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Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler addressing a rally, 1930s.
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Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler addressing a rally in Germany, c. 1933.
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Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler addressing a Nazi Party rally in Munich, Germany, in the 1930s.
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Ernst Röhm
Ernst Röhm, 1933.
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Ernst Röhm
Ernst Röhm (right) with SS leaders Kurt Daluege (left) and Heinrich Himmler (centre),...
German Federal Archives (Bundesarchiv), Bild 102-14886; photograph, o.Ang.
German soldiers swearing allegiance to Adolf Hitler
German soldiers swearing an oath of allegiance to Adolf Hitler at the Rathenower...
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Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini
Adolf Hitler (right) with Benito Mussolini.
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Munich Agreement
German Chancellor Adolf Hitler (left) and British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain...
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Munich Agreement: Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, and Neville Chamberlain
(From left) Italian leader Benito Mussolini, German Chancellor Adolf Hitler, a German...
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Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler reviewing German troops in Warsaw, 1939.
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Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler (centre) in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris shortly after signing...
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Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini
Italian dictator Benito Mussolini (left) touring the Eastern Front with German dictator...
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Heinrich Himmler and Adolf Hitler
Heinrich Himmler (left) and Adolf Hitler reviewing an assembly of Hitler's personal...
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Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini after the July Plot failed
Adolf Hitler (right) and Benito Mussolini (left) at the damaged Wolfsschanze (Wolf's...
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What does it take to become an astronaut?
Adolf Hitler.
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Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf
A copy of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf on exhibit at the former Stutthof concentration...
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The rise of the Third Reich
Adolf Hitler in 1932, shortly before he became chancellor of Germany.
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Adolf Hitler and Alfred Jodl
Adolf Hitler (left) examining campaign maps with Gen. Alfred Jodl, June 25, 1940.
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MV Wilhelm Gustloff
Adolf Hitler launching the MV Wilhelm Gustloff, Hamburg, Germany, May 5,...
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Leibstandarte-SS
Adolf Hitler (centre) and the Leibstandarte-SS at Klagenfurt, Ger, April 1938.
German Federal Archives (Bundesarchiv), Bild 183-H04436; photographer, o.Ang
Adolf Hitler: Mein Kampf
Cover of a 1943 edition of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf.
Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler, Volumes 1 and 2 (ed. 855), 1943
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler (third from right) participating in a Nazi parade in Munich, c. 1930s.
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Adolf Hitler and his Beer Hall Putsch coconspirators
Adolf Hitler (left) and Nazi associates in Landsberg Prison following the abortive...
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Ante Pavelić
Ante Pavelić (centre right) greeting Adolf Hitler at the Berghof (Hitler's chalet)...
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German chain of command in western Europe on June 6, 1944
Infographic showing the German chain of command in western Europe during the Normandy...
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