JTA — This week, Jewish communities across the United States are commemorating the anniversary of Kristallnacht, the anti-Jewish riots that marked a brutal turning point in the Nazi campaign of ...
On this day, 70 years ago, The British Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain famously said: "This morning the British Ambassador in Berlin handed the German Government a final note stating that, unless ...
In the early hours of September 30, 1938, the leaders of Britain, France, Germany, and Italy signed an agreement in Munich, Germany, allowing Nazi German leader Adolf Hitler to annex German-speaking ...
On the 85th anniversary of the Nazi November Pogroms against Germany's Jews, the leader of the country's Jewish community said old anxieties were being revived. The president of the Central Council of ...
The central Berlin tour focused on a dark chapter of German history. BERLIN -- More than 100 people came to Charlottenburg on Saturday for a free, historical walking tour. Under overcast skies, they ...
A powerful insignia alone, Adolf Hitler once noted, “can spark interest in a political movement.” What Hitler did not say, but what is evident to anyone with even a tenuous grasp of 20th-century ...
The Nazis yesterday devoted themselves to an orgy of anti-Jewish disorders. Synagogues were set on fire and shops wrecked and looted in many cities. The final signal for these "spontaneous" ...
Liberty Is Dead: A Canadian in Germany, 1938, Margaret E. Derry, editor and Franklin Wellington Wegenast (WLU Press, 156 pages, $24.95 softcover) - In the spring of 1938, a 62-year-old Canadian lawyer ...