At the beginning there is the promise of old greatness and new order, at the end there is the murder of millions. Wha...

In 1923, the NSDAP had grown to 55,000 members, and its party leader, Adolf Hitler, was portraying himself as the str...

At the end of the 1920s, the "rural people's movement" protested against social decline. The protest became a radical...

As soon as he took office, Chancellor Adolf Hitler dropped his mask and nipped any opposition in the bud. In less tha...

Hitler's aggressively anti-Semitic policy is supported by millions of Germans. Jews are discriminated against, depriv...

On September 1, 1939, German troops invade Poland. SS men follow behind them with orders to murder the Polish intelli...

On June 22, 1941, Hitler's army attacks the Soviet Union. In the shadow of the war, Germans commit mass murder agains...

In occupied Poland, "Operation Reinhardt" begins in 1942. Within a few months, the Germans murder more than two milli...

The defeat at Stalingrad in 1943 was the turning point in the war. While the Gestapo nipped any resistance in the bud...

The Second World War ended in 1945, but the violence continued. Survivors and victors wanted to hold the Germans acco...