On Dec. 14, 1932,Germany’s head of state, President Paul von Hindenburg, a former general, a Prussian’s Prussian, hosted a party in honor of Ernst Lubitsch, a German Jew who had emerged as one ...

I lived in Germany for several years and have studied pre-WWII German politics a little. It bugs me that this misinformation or misunderstanding of German politics in 1932/33 is repeated over and ...

Today, this chapter of the Weimar Republic’s history should be revisited. At a moment in which democracy is backsliding in places as varied as Hungary, India, Turkey, and the United States, it is a ...

In the fall of 1932, Germany had an opportunity to reject Adolf Hitler. The influential powers in Germany underestimated Hitler and sought to placate him and made him Reich Chancellor.

The Central Union of German Citizens of Jewish Faith has issued a call signed by its President, Dr. Julius Brodnitz, appealing to all German Jews to contribute to its 1932 Fighting Fund.