Nazi Germany is a reference for the twelve-year period in German history (1933-1945) during the totalitarian dictatorship ofAdolf Hitlerthrough the Nazi Party, which was founded in 1919 as the German Workers’ Party. The group grew in retaliation to the terms of the Treaty of Versailles and ...
the Weimar Republic – the successor to Imperial Germany – was allowed only a small defensive military force known as theReichswehr. The Reichswehr’s size and composition were strictly controlled by the Allies in the hope that by restricting its constitution they could prevent future German milit...
Kleist retired in 1950 (Neumarker and Bartsch, 2003). The time of his chairmanship thus included the years from 1933 to 1945 when Germany was under the regime of National Socialism. Kleist's maintenance of the chair and the directorship of the Psychiatric clinic thus contrasts sharply with ...
National Socialism; medical crimes; euthanasia; children; memory; commemoration; Germany; trauma; atrocity1. Introduction [1] Targeting infants, children, and youths, the National Socialist “children’s euthanasia” program was a unique phenomenon in the history of humankind, as the systematic murder...
Once Hitler gained control of the government, he directed Nazi Germany’s foreign policy toward undoing the Treaty of Versailles and restoring Germany’s standing in the world. He railed against the treaty’s redrawn map of Europe and argued it denied Germany—Europe’s most populous state—“...
Nazi Germany invades Poland, starting the European Phase of World War II 26 October 1939 General Government established in central Poland 10 June 1940 Italy declares war on France and the United Kingdom. The North African Campaign begins. 25 June 1940 France officially surrenders to Germa...
The stein would be banned and illegal in Germany today and in the years right after the war all but a few were destroyed. Today this relic is considered a treasured object of great historic interest, especially since the Thule Society was in a way the vanguard of the Nazi movement. The ...
At 2:10 am Moscow time on May 9, 1945, the sonorous, measured voice of radio announcer Yuri Levitan declared: “Germany has been entirely vanquished.” The final treaty had been signed in Berlin. At first, figures tentatively emerged into the balmy Mosco
Daniel Botmann, director of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, said the presence of mourners were "helping to ensure that the stories of the victims continue to be told or are even told for the first time." "Our mourning today over the crimes of the past creates the c...
“All of Germany is being delivered to the Freemasons through the League of Nations.”2 As early as the 5 August 1934, in a speech delivered at Essen, Dr. Wilhelm Frick, the Reich Minister of the Interior, declared: ‘It is inappropriate that a secret society with obscure aims should con...