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Luftwaffe HQ now the new Ministry of Finance
For seventy years, Berlin's Air Ministry has witnessed and been a part of Germany's turbulent history. Throughout, it has served three very different political masters.
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Neue Wache, Guardhouse to War Memorial
Like other public buildings in what was East Berlin, the Neue Wache has served the political purposes of very different masters over the past one hundred years.
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Adolf Eichmann Found Guilty of War Crimes
With ruthless efficiency, the "architect of the Holocaust" implemented the Nazi extermination policy of the Jews of Europe, killing a total of six million Jewish people.
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Berlin's Changing Political Architecture
The Kaiser's palace was replaced by the East German Palast der Republik. Now with German reunification, it too will be replaced with a replica of the original.
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The Nazi Death Camp Sobibor, Poland
The Sobibor death camp was purposely built during the Second World to exterminate the Jews living in Poland and other Nazi-occupied territories
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The Nazi Death Camp Belzec, Poland
The Belzec death camp was purposely constructed during the Second World War with the specific task of exterminating the Jews of Poland and other Nazi-occupies territories
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The Nazi Death Camp Treblinka, Poland
The Treblinka death camp was purposely built during the Second World War to exterminate the Jews of Poland and other Nazi-occupied territories.
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Operation Reinhard and the Nazi Death Camps
Operation Reinhard was the name given to the Nazi's plan to exterminate the Jewish population of the Generalgouvernment district of Poland.
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The Rise of Germany in the 19th Century
Until the late 19th Century, Germany was a mass of small independent states - until, that is, they were united under the leadership of ambitious, warlike Prussia.
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A New Zeitgeist for Berlin
20 years after the fall of the Wall, Germany looks ahead.
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Nazis Go on Trial in Nuremberg, Germany
German Chancellor Adolf Hitler and SS chief Heinrich Himmler had committed suicide earlier to avoid being captured and put on trial for their crimes during World War II.
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Berlin Wall Crumbles After 28 Years
The Berlin Wall, which stood as a symbol of the Cold War, came tumbling down in 1989, and led to a reunited Germany and the collapse of Communism in Europe.
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Why Germans Supported Hitler in 1933
The appeal of Hitler and the Nazi Party may have had more to do with addressing the national malaise and humiliation than unemployment and Depression.
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Remembering Georg Elser
On October 27, 2009, the City of Munich inaugurated an unusual kind of sculpture to commemorate Elser's bold plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler in 1939.
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Adolf Hitler's On-Going Popularity with Students
The Third Reich is a frequent topic of student history papers yet the themes often point to a subtle fascination with Hitler and the trappings of National Socialism.
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The Nazi Concentration Camp Mauthausen, Austria
Mauthausen Concentration Camp was opened in 1938 in Austria; just a few months after the Anschluss. It was the Nazi's first camp outside of Germany.
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The Nazi Concentration Camp Neuengamme
Neuengamme Concentration Camp was opened in late 1938 initially as sub-camp of the Sachsenhausen camp, by mid-1940 Neuengamme was established as a main camp.
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Women and the Reformation
The accepted view that the Protestant Reformation damaged the status of women is challenged by views that uplift the marriage role & criticize medieval assumptions.
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Leitz Family Historian – Rabbi Frank Dabba Smith
Frank Dabba Smith's enthusiasm for Leica cameras led him to research the wartime altruism of Ernst Leitz II who aided the escape of Jews and non-Jews from Nazi Germany.
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The Nazi Concentration Camp Ravensbruck
Ravensbruck was one of a number of Concentration Camps built by the Nazis before the Second World War.
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Nazi Concentration Camp Flossenburg
Flossenburg was one of a number of Concentration Camps built by the Nazis in Germany before the Second World War.
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The Lost Roman Legions
Under the leadership of Hermann, the German tribesmen wiped out three Roman Legions, ending Rome's bid to conquer Germany and altering European history permanently.
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German Nationalism and the Lost Roman Legions
Germany was the only European nation that the Romans never conquered. Since it never became part of the Empire, two vastly different cultures came to dominate Europe.
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The Hohenzollern Kings of Prussia
From the Great Elector Frederick William of Brandenburg to Emperor William II of Germany, the Hohenzollerns ruled Prussia and expanded its territory.
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The Nazi Concentration Camp Sachsenhausen
Sachsenhausen was one of a number of Concentration Camps built by the Nazis in Germany before the Second World War.
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