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Before the Nuremberg Trials, this was Winston Churchill’s shocking plan for Nazi war criminals

As Europe lay in ruins following the end of the Second World War, Churchill’s instinct was to punish the surviving Nazi ...

What triggered World War 2? How Hitler's 1939 invasion of Poland sparked the deadliest global conflict - explained

World War II, the deadliest conflict in modern history, officially began in September 1939 when Germany invaded Poland. Two days later, Britain and Fr.
Opinion

The AfD is flirting with Nazi history – but moral outrage alone won’t stop the far right

Coincidence or not, the party has timed its congress for the centenary of an infamous Nazi rally. But condemnation didn’t stop Hitler, and it’s not enough now, says historian and journalist Katja Hoye ...
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For the titans of industry in Nazi Germany and Trump’s America, silence and complicity enable authoritarianism

On a frosty February day in 1933, Adolf Hitler summoned 24 of Germany’s leading industrialists to a government palace in Berlin to enlist them in dismantling the last vestiges of democracy. When it ...