Boy Waves To Soldiers On The Berlin Wall

Germany

Munich: the real history behind the new film

King George II of Great Britain

George II: 8 facts about the British king and German elector

Neville Chamberlain shows off the Anglo-German Declaration at Heston Aerodrome

Second World War

Q&APeace for our time: what was written on Neville Chamberlain's piece of paper?

Turning points1916: The long march to modernity

Stuka dive bombers fly in formation over France in May 1940

Second World War

The making and breaking of the Luftwaffe

Wehrmacht soldiers on parade, 1937

Q&AHow was Germany able to afford the astronomical cost of rearmament in the 1930s?

Woman waving a union jack flag emblazoned with a swastika

In pictures: Interwar fascism

A scene from the German film 'Ways to Strength and Beauty', 1925. (Ullstein Bild via Getty Images)

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Germany’s naked truth: the 19th-century nudism movements co-opted by the Nazis

German doctor Otto Warburg at work in his laboratory

Otto Warburg: the Jewish doctor and the Nazi war on cancer

Politicians in suits discuss the Paris Peace Treaty inside the Palace of Versailles

The Paris Peace Conference: everything you wanted to know

Two Hitler Youth who have surrendered to Allied Forces, Germany, 1945. (Photo by © CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

First World War

Innocence under fire: how children were used in warfare of the past

Soldiers disembark a landing craft with a battle on the beach beyond

How to win a 20th-century battle

In partnership with Gaijin War Thunder

Witnesses to the Berlin Wall

George II: reassessing a much-forgotten monarch

Soldiers of the Third Reich surround a huge bonfire during a winter solstice festival in December 1936. The Nazis attempted to use elements of pagan beliefs to promote a Germanic ‘national religiosity’. (Photo by Getty Images)

Witches, werewolves and vampires: the Nazi's quest for the supernatural

Olympic history: everything you wanted to know

A man runs on an athletics track with a crowd behind him

Harry Edward: Britain’s first black Olympic hero

Jesse Owens sprinting on a track at the Berlin Olympics.

A history of unsporting conduct at the Olympics

The Cold War battle for Berlin

African Europeans

Women reporters of WW2

QuizHow well do you know your warships?

What the Stasi did next

Once allies, Adolf Hitler and Ernst Röhm (sitting to his left) had a colossal falling out over ideology

The Night of the Long Knives: the bloody purge that secured Hitler's power

Soldiers from the Women's Royal Army Corps

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A brief guide to VE Day

A German sailor signals Bismarck during manoeuvres in the western Atlantic, some time before the British gave chase. The maimed battleship sank below the waves on 27 May 1941

Second World War

The sinking of the Bismarck: a cat and mouse chase across the Atlantic

Two garden gnomes on grass

A brief history of garden gnomes

Barbarossa: Hitler’s greatest gamble

Roland Philipps tells the story of Mathilde Carré

Traitor or triple agent? The WW2 spy Mathilde Carré

1871: Otto von Bismarck reads the Proclamation of the German Empire at Versailles following Prussia's victory in the Franco-Prussian War. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images)

Germany’s pre-Nazi history: rethinking the Second Reich