Adolf Hitler took power on January 30, 1933, and within no time at all he had: —let loose the police against Jews and Communists to a degree never seen before; —won emergency powers to govern by ...

This video examines how Germany’s instability after World War I created the opening for Hitler and the Nazis. It traces the ...

Adolf Hitler did not have to come to power. Indeed, during his 13-year quest for leadership of Germany, he almost failed many times. In the end, however, his astonishing success showed how demagoguery ...

Herding political opponents into prisons and concentration camps, suspending civil liberties, and sending SA thugs to destroy ...

A brilliant new book concludes that Hitler’s seizure of power in 1933 was far from inevitable—and aided by the connivance of German elites who underestimated him at every turn. Timothy Ryback, 53 Days ...

Rosenbaum was reluctant to make the comparison up to this point, as he didn't want to trivialize the atrocities Hitler committed. But now that Trump is officially president, the author is speaking out ...

Editor’s note: We’ve republished this story, originally published in July, 2024, on the anniversary of Adolf Hitler being sworn in as Germany’s chancellor on Jan. 30, 1933. (JTA) — “It has been said ...

In one laconic sentence the German Ambassador to Japan, Major General Eugen Ott, last week set a temporary limit to German war aims and gave Japanese jingoes an encouraging pinch in the backside. The ...

What lessons can we learn from Hitler’s rise to power?* How did the German people, including theologians and pastor, become complicit in the evil of Nazi Germany? And what can the United States learn ...