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Atlantis and the Aryan Connection

By: Feature Writer Mary Desaulniers

Because of Hitler's search for a national history of origin, the association of Atlantis with the Aryan race contributed to the rise of Nazism. more...

Symbolism in Medieval Society

By: James Jackson

Martin Luther and Reynard the Fox are two of Europe's most well-known weapons against the Catholic Church, and their primary tactic was the use of symbolism. more...

Triumph of the Will

By: Feature Writer Michael Streich

Leni Riefenstahl's Nazi era films have been hailed and criticized as Nazi documentaries, propaganda, and superb film making although she defended them as works of art. more...

Hitler's Early Political Career

By: Jeanie Turner

Hitler was a soldier searching for his place in society and unable to accept that Germany had lost the war. It was not long before he found his true calling... more...

Albert Walter and the Comintern in Hamburg

By: Feature Writer Michael Streich

From the early 1920s until February 1933, Albert Walter led a world-wide organization that funded international Communist clubs, cells, and dispensed propaganda. more...

The Reichstag Fire of 1933

By: Feature Writer Michael Streich

Before the embers were cold, thousands of Communists were arrested and dragged to prisons and camps,weakening political opposition to Hitler and the Nazis. more...

Holocaust Collaborators Under New Scrutiny

By: Feature Writer Michael Streich

Evidence suggests that Nazi Germany had many willing executioners, perhaps as many as 200,000, in the mass extermination of European Jews. This charge has drawn anger. more...

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