It challenges the prevailing myths about Stauffenberg's dominant role in the military conspiracy and so attempts to do justice to the other military conspirators, most especially General Friedrich Olbricht, one of the most consistent, determined and effective of all the German Resistance leaders. NEW...
Bruce F. Pauley
Last Monday, the 80-year anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz was marked by politicians and world leaders. Other survivors follow suit Commenting on the vote, another Auschwitz survivor, Eva Umlauf, 82, compared it to 1930s Germany before Hitler's...
“The biggest success after that terrible era in our history was to label Adolf Hitler as right and conservative. He was exactly the opposite. He wasn’t a conservative. He wasn’t a libertarian. He was a communist socialist guy,” Weidel claimed. Article content Stories You May Like M...
the day after Labour Day – SA troops stormed trade union buildings and arrested key union leaders, most on trumped-up charges of corruption. Many ended up in the Dachau concentration camp, opened just weeks before. A decree abolished all existing trade unions and outlawed the formation of ne...
Part 8 of a complete online history, The Rise of Adolf Hitler - From Unknown to Dictator of Germany, at The History Place.
Yet the fact is that on September 29th, a full month before the beginning of the unrest at home, Germany's military leaders, General Erich Ludendorff and Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg, had urgently demanded that an immediate armistice be organized. Their desperate desire for peace derived no...
Hitler unconditionally surrendered on May 8, 1945. According to the "Crimean Declaration" and the "Potsdam Agreement", the defeated Germany should become a unified, independent, peace-loving and democratic country. Before such a country appeared, Germany was temporarily replaced by the Soviet Union,...
Hitler professed particular concern for children. He made a point of being filmed with them - at the Berghof, where he played the role of "Uncle Adolf" to the offspring of other leaders, looking unusually at ease as he chatted to them and cuddled them on his knee. It is a chilling ...
The intent was to eventually force Hitler to retaliate in kind. Hitler, himself, had always opposed the targeting of civilian populations, even long before the war. Moreover, this was a deliberate policy of subverting Hitler’s attempts to make peace by instigating hatred of the Germans in ...