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...
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 ...
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
In fact one complete lodges’ interior was removed from the Isle of Jersey for a “British” Freemasonry exhibition in Germany, this occurred after a night of heavy bombing on 29th June 1940, and the Island was invaded by Nazi Germany. Despite promises given by German commanders that Freemasons...
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 ...
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...
The Nazi Party was a political organization that ruled Germany through murderous, totalitarian means from 1933 to 1945 under the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler.
In Nazi Germany too, as in other totalitarian societies, a primary aim of the controlling leadership was the destruction of any organizational threat that might challenge the attainment of "state" ends; and unions, students and professional organizations, and community groups and political parties wer...
In: torate, which was in many respects seen as a periphery, Nazi decision makersclearly preferred architectonic and urbanistic patterns adopted from Germany.7From the Nazi viewpoint, architecture and urbanism–understood in broader senseas a part of theRaumordnung–were supposed to function as a...