Weinberg: 'I lost 41 members of my family' Read more from Sky News German chancellor slams Elon Musk Musk appears in AfD campaign Germany faces third year of recession For many, the CDU's cooperation with the AfD represents breaking the taboo of wor...
On January 30th, 1933, Hitler came to power as Chancellor of the German Reich. At once he proceeded to carry through the National Socialist Revolution which aimed at a totalitarian racial state. No person who was not of "Aryan" race, or who had held political opinions contrary to those of...
Before Adolf Hitler became Chancellor in 1934 a lot of chaos occurred which made his fight to come into power stronger. The key events that happened before Hitler was in power were the Treaty of Versailles and the Great Depression. The Treaty of Versailles impacted Germany as they suffered ...
Polls put the neo-liberal Free Democrats, whose departure from Chancellor Olaf Scholz's three-way coalition precipitated the snap election, on about 3%, while the Left is seen on 3-4% and its splinter party, the upstart Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance(BSW), on 7.5%. The Free Voters, strong riv...
Musk, who worked last year to help re-elect Donald Trump in the United States, told Alice Weidel, a co-leader of the Alternative for Germany party and its candidate for chancellor, that he was “strongly recommending that people vote for AfD,” using the party’s acronym. The audience...
the Red Cross Convention, it definitely turned out possible to prevent the killing of a defenseless wounded man or prisoner, then it ought to be equally possible, by analogous convention, and finally to stop the bombing of equally defenseless civil populations.” –German Chancellor Adolf Hitler....
II. 1933: THE NAZIS SEIZE POWER Adolph Hitler was named Chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1933. The Nazi regime immediately began a campaign to disarm and obliterate all enemies of the state, who were invariably designated "Communists." The following describes this process from contemporaneous...
The Chancellor--until 1890 Otto von Bismarck--was, for example, answerable to the crown, not the parliament. Nevertheless, it is instructive to see Germany in a European context of gradual suffrage extension after the Revolutions of 1848. The graph below looks at select cases, using the ...
Germany is expected to hold a snap election in February, after Chancellor Olaf Scholz lost a vote of confidence and his ruling coalition collapsed. The AfD, which recently became the first far-right party towin a state electionsince the Nazi era, has seen a surge in support. ...
After Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany in 1933, Szilard urged his family and friends to flee Europe while they still could. He moved to England, where he helped found the Academic Assistance Council, an organization dedicated to helping refugee scholars find new jobs. While in England ...