Nazi Germany

Stuka dive bombers fly in formation over France in May 1940

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The making and breaking of the Luftwaffe

Wehrmacht soldiers on parade, 1937

Q&A How was Germany able to  afford the astronomical cost  of rearmament in the 1930s?

Woman waving a union jack flag emblazoned with a swastika

In pictures: Interwar fascism

Illustration of Johnny Hopper by Stavros Damos for BBC History Magazine

Johnny Hopper: a nerveless Nazi-killer

A scene from the German film 'Ways to Strength and Beauty', 1925. (Ullstein Bild via Getty Images)

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Germany’s naked truth: the 19th-century nudism movements co-opted by the Nazis

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Charlie English discusses what an extraordinary art collection reveals about Nazism’s impact on modernist art and people with mental illnesses. (Image by Getty Images)

Hitler’s war on “degenerate art” . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A panel of eyewitnesses recall their memories of the divided city and the dramatic events of November 1989. (Image by Getty Images)

Witnesses to the Berlin Wall . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Soldiers of the Third Reich surround a huge bonfire during a winter solstice festival in December 1936. The Nazis attempted to use elements of pagan beliefs to promote a Germanic ‘national religiosity’. (Photo by Getty Images)

Witches, werewolves and vampires: the Nazi’s quest for the supernatural

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As the world’s best athletes congregate in Tokyo for the 29th Summer Games, David Goldblatt answers your questions on the history of the Olympics. (Image from Getty Images)

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

Once allies, Adolf Hitler and Ernst Röhm (sitting to his left) had a colossal falling out over ideology

The Night of the Long Knives: the bloody purge that secured Hitler’s power

Norman cavalry on the charge in the Bayeux Tapestry. (Image by Bettmann/Getty Images)

Why the Nazis fell in love with the Bayeux Tapestry

Adolf Hitler. (Photo by Heinrich Hoffmann/Archive Photos/Getty Images)

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Your guide to Adolf Hitler: key facts about the Nazi dictator

Adolf Hitler photographed with British politician Henry Vane-Tempest Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry (left) and Joachim von Ribbentrop (right), minister of foreign affairs of Nazi Germany from 1938 to 1945. (Photo litzy ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

Making friends with Hitler: Britain’s pre-war admiration for the Nazi dictator

Speech of Adolf Hitler to the Reichstag inthe Kroll Opera in Berlin after the Declaration of war to the USA, in addition to the lectern to the right: Press Chief Otto Dietrich and the personal adjutant of Hitler Albert Bormann the Brigade Commander o

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“One of the most puzzling decisions of WW2”: Ian Kershaw on why Hitler declared war on America

Did Winston Churchill and Adolf Hitler (pictured) ever meet? (Photos by Getty Images)

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Q&A Did Churchill and Hitler ever meet?