Consider how the Armenian Genocide was made possible by the staggering brutality of World War I.
Consider how the Armenian Genocide was made possible by the staggering brutality of World War I.
Compare the party platforms of the Communists, Nazis, and Social Democrats in Germany’s 1932 presidential elections, a time of deep economic crisis.
Read about the violent response in one British neighborhood to Germany’s sinking of the Lusitania during World War I.
Herbert Pundik, a Danish Jew who was rescued in 1943 at the age of sixteen, discusses the choices Danish people made during the rescue of the country’s Jews.
Consider the motivations and expectations of Paul von Hindenburg when he appointed Hitler to chancellor of Germany (Spanish available).
Read the text of Hitler’s first speech to the German people as chancellor, in which he describes his vision for the future of Germany.
Learn about how the Allies sought to bring German leaders to justice after World War II and the Holocaust.
Holocaust survivor Primo Levi describes his first day as a prisoner in Auschwitz, and the harrowing experience of losing his loved ones, possessions, and even his name.
Learn about Germany’s atrocities against the Herero, the Nama, and other indigenous groups in South-West Africa during Europe's colonization of Africa in the late 1800s.
Consider why paramilitary groups such as the Freikorps formed in the aftermath of World War I in Germany.
Learn about the period of disastrous inflation inWeimar Germany after World War I and consider the effects of this era on German citizens.
Learn about Nazi Germany’s participation in the Spanish Civil War and analyze Pablo Picasso’s painting Guernica.