‘Irresponsible’, the new book by Nazism expert Johann Chapoutot, brilliantly recounts the end of the Weimar Republic, highlighting the parallels with the present day ...

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The blood on the sofa had dried to a rusty brown by the time American soldiers reached Hitler’s bunker in 1945. One officer cut out a square of fabric as a grim souvenir. Eighty years later, that ...

On January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany by President Paul von Hindenburg, a decision made entirely within the framework of Germany’s constitutional system. Though lawful ...

“I remember singing it in the playground in the late 1970s,” said Guy Walters in The Independent: “Hitler has only got one ball / The other is in the Albert Hall.” We all assumed the ditty was just a ...

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