Weimar from Goethe to Hitler
One small town in Germany has become synonymous with darkness
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The meanings of Mein Kampf
Hitler’s infamous book – part autobiography, part manifesto – was published 100 years ago. How influential has it been?
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The complicity of Leni Riefenstahl
The late film-maker insisted she was only an observer of the Nazi regime. A new documentary suggests otherwise.
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How the world stopped Hitler
The Second World War was not just won on the battlefield, but in seemingly marginal regions from Ireland to Iraq.
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The Nazis and us
The Holocaust continues to haunt our politics. But slurring our opponents as Hitlers is not the way to defeat them.
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Inside the court of Adolf Hitler
Richard J Evans’s group biography of the Third Reich’s enforcers provides a revelatory account of the Nazi mind.
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Marc Bloch: a warning from Europe’s past
According to Emmanuel Macron, the best analysis of the dangers facing the continent today comes from a French historian who…
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Why we can’t escape Nazi comparisons
As Gary Lineker shows, the Second World War has become Britain’s reference point for good vs evil.
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Martin Wolf: “Austerity and Brexit made everything worse”
The chief economics commentator of the Financial Times reflects on the failures of globalisation and how the UK became the…
By19 December 1931: The future Führer is manoeuvred to the edge of German politics.
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My friend, the man who tried to kill Hitler
The would-be assassin Axel von dem Bussche was subject to the same pressures of guilt and shame that condition all…
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Why Putin’s war in Ukraine turned into a military disaster
The Russian president is a prisoner of his own delusions – and the similarities with Hitler are hard to ignore.
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Why Neville Chamberlain will forever be discredited by his policy of appeasement
A new Netflix film, based on Robert Harris’s novel, attempts to rehabilitate the former prime minister – but his legacy…
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