After the invasion of Poland in 1940, Hitler sent a group of archaeologists to try to prove that the Germans had lived there first and had legitimate claim to the land. But the quest to prove Germany's superiority didn't start with World War II; it started quite a few years earlier. ...
the over-whelming majority of Germans had internalized this view of the world. With therise of Hitler, this eliminationism almost seamlessly melded into its racist,exterminatory form, and the overwhelming majority of Germans thus either“understood”or willingly engaged in the killing of Jews, usual...
A new survey signals that Germany, where the term 'Fuhrer,' or leader, is explicitly linked to Adolf Hitler, is not immune from the far-right sentiments that are spreading across Europe.Marquand, Robert
Musk has also actively stoked nativist grievances and racial resentment in the U.K. during this summer’s riots. How has Musk’s AfD endorsement been received in Germany? Although a number of frustrated Germans have defended his criticism of the country, reception has largely been poor, in...
the People.” In occupied Warsaw, a 1941 poster displayed a drawing of a louse with a caricature of a Jewish face. The slogan: “Jews are lice: they cause typhus.” Germans, by contrast, were clean, pure, healthy, and vermin free. Hitler once described the Nazi flag as “the ...
Why did the Germans want him to work for them? And why was he willing to do it? Whether I would have got any reply is another question. Interpreting the Biography Rolf himself translated the transcript of the interview with the physicists from Norwegian into German. Pedro Waloschek used ...
Josef Mengele, medical researcher in Germany who tortured war prisoners in the camp at Auschwitz in the name of science, are well known. The usual assumption is to suggest that Mengele was a freakish anomaly, and that the Germans (and their allies the Japanese) were the only ones to engage...
In 1939 the war started, and within weeks the Germans entered our town. My father and older brother hid in the attic, and whenever someone knocked at our door and asked for them, we said they were not at home. Then came the dreaded public announcement: all Jews had to gather in the ...
Why would the Soviets need/want a lot of reparations from the Germans? Itwas agreed that russia could take whatever it wanted from the soviet zone, and 10 percent of the industrial equipment of the western zone, but Britain and the US thought this was to much. ...
This was by the Germans’ design. Stalag Luft III was run by the Luftwaffe, which had a culture that elevated gentlemanly respect between all fellow air force officers — even those belonging to the opposing side — and a commandant in Friedrich Wilhelm von Lindeiner who despised the Nazi ...