Using well-documented facts and contemporary photographs, this timeline chronicles that tragic ... During the last free election in pre-war Germany, the Nazi party wins nearly 44 percent of ...

September: Employing blitzkrieg (literally, "lightning war") tactics, Germany invades Poland. Polish military forces are unprepared for the ferocity of Germany's attack.When efforts to negotiate a ...

Born from the defeat of World War One, the new German government, the Weimar Republic, faced a series of challenges economically, politically, socially and internationally. What challenges were ...