National Socialist troops marching in Berlin to celebrate Adolf Hitler taking over power. Hitler’s accession to chancellor on Jan. 30, 1933, gave the Nazi party its “in” to eventually consolidate absolute control over the country in the months soon after, setting it on the path to the Second World War.
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Adolf Hitler’s rise to power was aided by courts and lawyers in pre-war Germany. A similar situation exists today in the United States.
Patrons at the Eldorado, a popular LGBTQ cabaret in Berlin during the Weimar years.
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Only in the past few years have the stories and experiences of trans people in Nazi Germany come to light.
Rosa Luxemburg, the Polish-born German revolutionary and co-founder of the German Communist Party, addressing a meeting in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1907. She was assassinated in January 1919.
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Antisemitism has been used as a weapon against leading Jewish politicians in Europe for over a century – no matter how assimilated they were. Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy is no exception.
Adolf Hitler surrounded by German supporters in 1937.
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A trove of essays long forgotten in the archives of the Hoover Institution give insight into what attracted everyday women to extremist ideology.
Still from Prince Achmed (1926)
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More than a decade before Snow White, Lotte Reiniger was pioneering revolutionary animation ideas – now they are being rediscovered.
Red Rosa.
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Though best remembered for her role in the doomed German Revolution, Rosa Luxemburg’s theories on how capitalism exploits people and nature need hearing today.
A tank on its way to port for the Normandy landings in 1944.
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Both before, during and after conflict, wars have shaped the creation of welfare states.
Donald Trump’s policies represent a particular attack on American youth and children, particularly those who are disadvantaged.
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Call it Fascism, American-Style. Donald Trump’s embrace of authoritarian ideals has extended to a veritable war on America’s youth.