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Hitler's Interpreter
As an interpreter in the German Foreign Ministry, Paul-Otto Schmidt (1899–1970) was in attendance at some of the most decisive moments of twentieth-century history. Fluent in both …
The Reichstag Fire
When the German Reichstag went up in flames on the evening of 27 February 1933, Hitler used the incident to seize power, claiming it was the work of Communists planning a violent …
Killing Hitler: The Plots, the Assassins, and the Dictator Who Cheated Death
Looks at the diverse unsuccessful attempts to assassinate Adolf Hitler, profiles the various conspirators involved in the incidents, and speculates about the potential global …
Poland 1939: The Outbreak of World War II
An "exemplary" (Timothy Snyder, New York Times) history of the onset of World War IIFor Americans, World War II began in December 1941, with the bombing of Pearl Harbor; but for …
His Struggle: Hitler in Landsberg Prison, 1924
On the 1st of April, 1924, Adolf Hitler was sentenced to five in years in prison.In 1923 Hitler had hijacked a political meeting in one of Bavaria's beer halls, firing a pistol …
Hitler's Third Reich in 100 Objects
_'An engaging and novel approach to a familiar history. Pleasingly comprehensive and accessible highly recommended_' - Iron Cross magazine. Hitler's Third Reich is still the focus …