In January 1933, Adolf Hitler, a popular German politician who had launched his career in the beer halls of Munich, reached the top of German government in a political compromise. Known for ...

Launch the interactive Genocide Under the Nazis Timeline. Adolf Hitler, leader of the largest party in the German parliament, achieves power legally and is sworn in as Chancellor of Germany. Adolf ...

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 ...

In perhaps one of the worst miscalculations in modern political history, Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany in January 1933 in the hopes that he could successfully form a coalition ...

Adolf Hitler's dreams for a 1,000-year empire thankfully ended in ruin more than 70 years ago, but his crimes still cast a long shadow over humanity. Newsweek's Special Edition—Hitler: Can His Evil ...

Nothing appears too sinister, not at first. Only rarely can a swastika be spotted, or graffiti threatening outsiders, even though one in four of Offenbach’s 117,000 residents is non-German. Not a ...

These laws became more severe during the 1930s. Gay men were also targeted as a consequence of the Nazis’ belief in an ‘Aryan race’. The Nazis believed that they were not contributing to its creation ...

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) released data that shows the number of Anti-Semitic incidents in the United States has increased by 361% since October 7th, 2023. This includes assault, vandalism, ...

On January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany. To his supporters, it was a day of “national revolution” and rebirth. Germany, they believed, needed the restorative force of an ...