Nazi soldiers launched a simulated attack on the German-run Gleiwitz radio station on the evening of August 31, 1939. The ...

In 1936, Americans looked on as Adolf Hitler remilitarized western German lands near the Rhine River and the eastern border of France. Hitler's action was designed to create a diplomatic crisis by ...

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Remember Germany 1936,” the post said. “SloJoe” had a profile picture with the face of the late general and secretary of state Colin Powell. Under Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler revived military ...

In the streets of Berlin, Olympic flags hung alongside swastikas. For the German press, used to expressing their prejudices freely, the international presence was cause for restraint, but one ...

On August 1, 1936, Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler opened the 11th Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany. In doing so, he inaugurated what is now a famed ritual of a lone runner bearing a torch carried from ...

This cloth crest was worn by a German athlete at the 1936 Olympic Games held in Berlin. It was the first mass display of Nazi imagery within world competition. The unknown wearer of this ...

Adolf Hitler harnessed the might of German industry for his war effort in 1939-1945 A German industrial dynasty with big stakes in various international brands has admitted brutality towards slave ...

This created millions of jobs for German workers. The use of oil ... longer be necessary for Germans to trade internationally. In 1936, Hermann Göring was appointed leader of the Four Year ...