The first fifty years of Europe’s twentieth century were racked by violence, bloodshed and extraordinary political, economic, and socio-cultural changes. Between 1914 and 1918, an […]
Introduction: What Was Europe’s “Interwar Crisis”?
A Speech by Adolf Hitler (1936)
Large crowds gather at a Nazi rally in Nuremberg, Germany in 1936 to watch Adolf Hitler deliver a fiery speech three years prior to the […]
German Troops March Into Austria (1938)
In March 1938, Adolf Hitler began his expansionist program of uniting “Greater Germany” by invading, occupying, and ultimately annexing Austria to the Third Reich. Explicitly […]
Neville Chamberlain, On Appeasement (1938)
In September 1938, one year before the beginning of World War II, the British prime minister, Neville Chamberlain, flew to Germany to negociate a peaceful […]
“Night and Fog” (1956)
Directed by Alain Resnais, Night and Fog (Nuit et brouillard) is a 1956 French documentary on Nazi Germany’s concentration, labor, and extermination camps during the […]