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 ...

The appointment of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of Germany in January 1933 is surely the 20th century event currently being most thoroughly examined by historians, though experts are not only looking to ...

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 ...

Hitler is seizing power, and the Weimar Republic is falling apart. In the long-awaited season finale of “Babylon Berlin,” the Nazis gain strength—and so does the resistance against them. The creators ...

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 ...