which aimed to unite the interests of the working class with a strong German nationalism. His skilled oratory and charismatic energy helped propel him in the party’s ranks, and in 1920 he left the army and took charge of its propaganda efforts. ...
Part II of our Hitler History The Triumph of Hitler - The pre-war years of Nazi Germany, 1933-39.Part III of our Hitler History The Defeat of Hitler - Quest for a Nazi Empire, 1939-45. See also: The History Place - World War II in Europe Timeline The History Place - Holocaust ...
before being promptly forgotten. Another Greek, Aesyklos (Hans Matheson), is equally forgotten after a film’s worth of irrelevance. He’s there so Themistocles has someone to unload exposition on, then he disappears. If you walk out of the theater...
Though billed as a spinoff,Rise of the Beastsmostly functions as another showcase for the bestselling playthings from the toybox. That includes, naturally, the yellow Camaro with the radio soul,Bumblebee, the only Transformer deemed likable enough to carry his own movie. Bumblebee has the adva...
or the striking color palette used by the fascist rulers in the fictional government ofV for Vendetta. It’s admittedly hard to think that tie-dye and jam bands might be used for the same purpose as the military uniforms and Wagnerian orchestras of the Third Reich. But applying the vibrant...
The Nazis killed victims from other groups—homosexuals, Roma, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Poles, and political opponents were chief among them—but the destruction of European Jewry remained paramount in the eyes of the Third Reich. In German-occupied Europe, out of a prewar population of about 8.3 ...