Hitler’s Reich
Writing in 1933, Hamilton Fish Armstrong describes the collapse of the Weimar Republic and Adolf Hitler's ascent to power.
View ArticleThe Problem Child of Europe
The journalist Dorothy Thompson explains Hitler’s Nazi revolution at the start of World War II.
View ArticleReflection: Lessons from German History
German history teaches that malice and simplicity have their appeal, that force impresses, and that nothing in the public realm is inevitable. It also proves that democratic reconstruction is possible,...
View ArticleWhen Stalin Faced Hitler
Stephen Kotkin tells the story of the fateful night in 1941 when, after years of mutual nonaggression, Germany finally attacked the Soviet Union.
View ArticleHow We Got Here
Selections from the Foreign Affairs archives tracing the ideological battles of the past century and the evolution of the modern order. The authors include Harold Laski, Victor Chernov, Paul Scheffer,...
View ArticleGermany's Unification
The division of Germany disappeared along with the Cold War that created it. Unification occurred with surprising ease and swiftness and, most important, without major bloodshed. Thus it contrasted...
View ArticleGermans vs. the Critics
The author of HITLER'S WILLING EXECUTIONERS writes that he did not tone down his ideas for presentation in Germany. The German public, he attests, responded favorably to his notion of individuals'...
View ArticleMr. Heilbrunn's Planet: On Which the Germans Are Back
Suspicions that Germany, actually staid and boring, is secretly polishing ye olde jackboots underlies Jacob Heilbrunn's woefully out-of-date reportage on the German new right. Heilbrunn replies to...
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