History and Historians

Helmut Kohl was the chancellor who reunified Germany after the collapse of communism and was a key architect of the European Union.

Archive used in prosecution of Nazis reveals detailed evidence of death camps and genocide previously unseen by public

Even if there are many significant differences between Hitler and Trump and their respective historical circumstances, what conclusions can the reader of Volker Ullrich’s new biography reach that offer insight into our current situation?

Chilling details emerge about the daily life of Heinrich Himmler, the Nazi SS chief who sent millions of Jews to their deaths in the Holocaust.

On 31 October 1517, as every child once knew, an obscure German monk nailed his 95 theses to the door…

This week, in a meeting with young historians in Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin made a rather startling statement.  In

The German publisher of a special scholarly edition of Hitler's Mein Kampf says sales soared in 2016.

Ethiopian prince Lij Iyasu was deposed after fears he had converted to Islam. But it also put an end to the threat of Ethiopia entering into World War One, writes Martin Plaut.

The Universal Pictures film adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque's anti-war novel All Quiet on the Western Front had its German premiere at the Mozart Hall in Berlin on December 5th, 1930. Hailed as a masterpiece in Britain and America, 'the most impressive talking picture yet seen', the film had a very different reception in Germany. Barely ten minutes after it had begun, the performance was interrupted when the National Socialist propaganda chief Josef Goebbels walked noisily out of the theatre. This was the signal for Nazi activists in the audience to release white mice, stink bombs and itching powder into the crowded auditorium.