Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany (aka the Third Reich) is the common English name for Germany between 1933 and 1945 when the country was ruled by Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party. Following his appointment as chancellor in 1933, Hitler and his Nazi government soon assumed dictatorial powers and tried to control and impose Nazi values on all aspects of people’s political, social and working lives, using propaganda and persecution

George VI and Elizabeth, the queen consort, talking to men clearing the debris of a bomb site in London, September 1940 (Photo by Topical Press/Getty Images)

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King George VI’s Nazi dilemma: the men in the royal household who admired Hitler

A protester wearing a star badge at an anti-vaccination rally in Cardiff, 2021. The badge’s design deliberately evokes the star Jewish people were forced to wear in Nazi-occupied territories during the Second World War.

“Many, if not most, Nazi analogies are historically inaccurate” Richard J Evans on the trouble with comparisons

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Episode 1 The Holocaust with Laurence Rees – Beginnings . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Episode 2 The Holocaust with Laurence Rees – Radicalisation . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Episode 3 The Holocaust with Laurence Rees – Mass extermination . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Weaponising food in the Third Reich . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ghetto in Charkov Photo 1941 World War Two Russian Campaign Occupation of Charkov capital of the Ukraine

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The Black Book of Soviet Jewry

Hitler and Eva Braun pose with their dogs in 1942

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Fake news and Nazis: Richard J Evans on the spectre of conspiracies

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All Quiet On The Western Front Why its lessons still matter today

A German soldier captured during the battle of Kursk, July–August 1943. Germany’s last major offensive on the eastern front ended in crushing defeat (Photo by STF/AFP/ GettyImages)

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Bitter end: Hitler’s downfall and the end of the war and the Third Reich

A propaganda photograph showing a typical German family eating the Eintopf, a cost-saving stew promoted by the Third Reich

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The stomach for the fight: the food policies used by the Nazis to maintain control in the Third Reich

Aerial view of the outside of Treblinka extermination camp, Germany, 1943. (Photo by Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images)

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Laurence Rees on the perpetrators of the Holocaust: “What they told us was, at the time, they felt it was the right thing to do”

Count von Stauffenberg

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Why we should remember… The plot to assassinate Hitler and install a new German government

Businessman Oskar Schindler speaks about saving lives during the Holocaust of Germany's Third Reich at an interview. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Biography Oskar Schindler: your guide to his life and legacy

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Peter Caddick-Adams on the laws of war “Russian politicians and military figures behind the awful events unfolding in Ukraine will, one day, be brought to justice”