The day after the German Reichstag was severely damaged by fire, in 1933, Adolf Hitler’s Nazi party, which had received only one-third of the popular vote a few months before, rammed through a decree ...

After 1890 important changes took place within the German Empire both in domestic and foreign policy. The period was marked ...

What is House of History? House of History is my little soapbox project. Politics, history, and cultural developments have ...

To many Germans, Americans were saviors after World War II, and they feel especially hurt over President Donald Trump’s ...

For 70 years, Germany embodied postwar recovery – prosperous, stable and admired. Now, as exports falter, populism grows and ...

College of Charleston Joe Engel was and remains an icon in Charleston, South Carolina. Born in Zakroczym, Poland, he survived ...

During my recently completed term as US special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism, one question was posed to me with ...

Bayern Munich were dealt a first Bundesliga defeat of the season by Augsburg, who revelled in their victory as they mocked ...

A holocaust survivor has described her fear at the possibility that history is repeating itself, as she told the next generation to remember that “we are all human beings”. Annick Lever was 11 when, ...

Augsburg defied all expectations to inflict a first Bundesliga defeat of the season on Bayern Munich, producing a shock ...

Walter Isaacson’s small book of last year, The Greatest Sentence Ever Written, identifies the core of the idea of the United ...

In 1900, collective power was used to override the sovereignty of a weaker state. In 2026, collective alignment is being used ...