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”?
Original (Silent) Footage of the Treaty of Versailles (1919)
Signed between Germany and the Allied Powers on June 28, 1919 (exactly five years to the very day since the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand […]
Enrico Da Seta, “Here Is the Most Appropriate Weapon” (1936)
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 […]