Soldiers at Nazi Party Rally in Nuremberg

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

The bloody road to Rome: liberating Italy from the Nazis in WWII. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Adolf Hitler and his lover, Eva Braun, relaxing in Berchtesgaden in 1942. The Nazi leader’s private life was more ‘normal’ than some accounts have suggested (Photo by akg-images)

“We need to understand the Nazis as human beings”: Richard J Evans on the motivations of Hitler’s followers. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Video podcastWhy did people kill for Hitler?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A dummy Bofors gun and crew in north Africa – among the ploys used to deceive Axis intelligence about the true location of massed Allied forces before the battle of El Alamein. (Photo by Alamy)

Dudley Clarke: the spy who hoodwinked Hitler. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A 21st-century Holocaust trial. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Agent Zo: spying against the Nazis. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Jonah Hauer-King as Lali Sokolov and Anna Próchniak as Gita Furman in The Tattooist of Auschwitz

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Are we right to fictionalise the Holocaust? It’s a question The Tattooist of Auschwitz should make us ask ourselves

Artwork for the Tattooist of Auscwitz

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The real tattooists of Auschwitz: who were the men who turned people into numbers?

Battle of the Atlantic: WW2's greatest battles. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Video podcastThe Britons who rebuilt postwar Germany. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The man who ran Auschwitz: the real story of The Zone of Interest. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The myth of the innocent bystander: conformity and complicity in Nazi Germany. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Winthrop Bell: a Canadian spy who predicted Nazi horrors. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Britons who rebuilt postwar Germany. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Chanel: glamour and controversy on the Riviera. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A black and white photograph of Rudolf Hoss, on the first day of his trial for war crimes

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The real history behind The Zone of Interest: Did Rudolf Höss really live next door to Auschwitz?

: SS soldiers with Jewish people before their execution at Babyn Yar. “Each of these murders took place face to face. It was an intimate and barbaric process,” writes James Bulgin. (Photo by YAD VASHEM ARCHIVES)

How the holocaust began. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Video podcastNazi Germany: the myth of the innocent bystander. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Nazi Germany: the myth of the innocent bystander. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Video podcastResistance in the Second World War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A black and white photo showing a group of friends having a picnic, including Josef Mengele (third from the right).

Tracking down the Nazi 'Angel of Death': one man's hunt for Josef Mengele

Weimar Germany: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Could the Nazis have built the world's first atomic bomb?

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The German Nuclear Weapons ProgramCould the Nazis have built the first atomic bomb?

Salon Kitty: sex & spying in Nazi Germany. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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)

King George VI's Nazi dilemma: the men in the royal household who admired Hitler. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

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

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

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