WWI economic challenges, like the Treaty of Versailles and the Great Depression, laid the groundwork for World War II.

When news of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor reached Germany, its leadership was absorbed by the crisis in its war with the Soviet Union. On Dec. 1, 1941, after the serious defeat the Red Army ...

Postwar Germany was a nation in turmoil, torn apart by street violence, economic collapse, and political extremism. In this unstable world, an unknown agitator found his moment. This video follows how ...

Between Hitler’s rise to power in Germany and the United States’ entry into the Second World War, fascist ideas and organisations burgeoned in America.

The resulting document, approved Aug. 11, 1919, became the republic’s guidebook for over a decade, until Adolf Hitler ...