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Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler's Nazi campaign includes the indoctrination of children in Berlin, Feb. 24, 1936. The boys are trained for future military service and the girls to be obedient hausfraus. Here a group of boys proudly march beneath Nazi standards. 

Political science of the periphery: Part II

Critical State

This week, Critical State, our weekly foreign policy newsletter, looks at how the Germanization project of Hitler Youth played out in the borderlands of the Reich’s new holdings.

Outside the house in Austria where Adolf Hitler was born there's a block of stone from the Mauthausen concentration camp. It reads "for peace freedom and democracy, never again fascism, remember the millions of dead."

How Hitler’s birthplace in Austria handles its unwanted landmark

Conflict
Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler in Munich, Germany.

How US journalists normalized the rise of Hitler and Mussolini

Global Politics

Hitler’s one-time top deputy Rudolf Hess exhumed from grave

Bigmouth: A One-Man Mashup of the Words of History

The World in Words

Nazi Rudolf Hess Exhumed From Grave

The corpse of Adolf Hitler’s one-time top deputy Rudolf Hess was exhumed and his grave destroyed, according to authorities in Germany. Hess’s tombstone, which read “I dared” in German, had become a shrine for neo-Nazis according to the Lutheran church in Wunsiedel, where he was buried. Hess was burried in Wunsiedel according to his wishes […]

The World

The Nuremberg Trials: 65 years later

Conflict & Justice

Stuart Schulberg’s film, “Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today” was released widely in Germany but was never released in the United States. Sandra Schulberg, Stuart’s daughter, has restored her father’s work. We talk to her about why the film still matters.