Nazi Germany

Georg Elser, a little-known carpenter-turned-assassin whose daring attempt to kill Hitler almost succeeded

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Georg Elser: the man who nearly assassinated Hitler

Actress Lily James and actor Michael Huisman looking at each other in a still from the film The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

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Life under Nazi rule: the occupation of the Channel Islands

German writer Hans Fallada (1893–1947), pictured in 1934 with his son Uli in a carriage in Carwitz, Mecklenburg. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Germans who resisted the Nazis

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”

When Bergen-Belsen was liberated, huts designed to house about 30 people were found to be crammed with as many as 500. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Your guide to the Holocaust

The aftermath of Kristallnacht, when businesses and properties owned by Jews were the target of vicious Nazi mobs

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Life in Nazi Germany: everything you wanted to know

Daniel Lee on the HistoryExtra podcast.

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An ‘ordinary’ Nazi

Roger Moorhouse on the HistoryExtra podcast

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Poland 1939: The invasion that sparked WW2

Writer and Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson at her home in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Alamy)

Isabel Wilkerson: “Caste is like the wind. You may not be able to see it, but it’s a quietly destructive force”

A mother and her children amid the smoking rubble of their city in 1940. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Hitler’s vengeance

A portrait of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler

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Why did the Second World War happen?

Sculpture of Noor Inayat Khan, the

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Noor Inayat Khan: why was the British spy such an unlikely war hero?

Some of the 5,000 Jewish and non-Aryan German child refugees, the 'Kindertransport', arriving in England at Harwich from Germany, 2 December 1938. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Revisiting the Kindertransport

German Chancellor Adolf Hitler reviews storm troopers

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How did the Nazi party rise to power in Germany in 1933? And what were Hitler’s motivations?

A photograph of Rudolph Hoess during his trial in Warsaw in 1947. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

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Rudolf Höss & the men behind the mass murder at Auschwitz