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In the inter-war years, football was a popular sport which drew huge crowds of spectators. The totalitarian regimes of Germany and Italy, argues Peter J. Beck, were not slow to realise the propaganda, potential of their nations' sporting successes – and soon Britain recognised the value of sport to its own national image. |
Frederick the Great, the man who made Prussia a leading European power, was born on January 24th, 1712. Published in History Today, Volume: 62 Issue: 1, 2012
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King George V and Kaiser Wilhelm II pose together in 1912. However, the Kaiser had mixed feelings towards Britain and the First World War broke out two years later. |
Tim Grady on postwar Germany’s attempts to remember the contribution made by its Jewish combatants in the First World War. |
Robert Pearce examines the factors that led to Prussia's victory in the German civil war of 1866. |
The idea that the German foreign office during the Nazi period was a stronghold of traditional, aristocratic values is no longer tenable according to recent research, as Markus Bauer reports. |
Richard Cavendish describes how Adolf Eichmann was captured in Argentina on May 11th, 1960. |
Adolf Hitler was born in Austria on April 20th, 1889. In this article, 'Makers of the Twentieth Century: Hitler', from our 1980 archive, Jeremy Noakes argues that Hitler's contribution to the history of the twentieth century has been one of destruction. The war he started in 1939 was to recast the pattern of our world irreparably. |
As the marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton approaches Michael Bloch tells the story of one of the more unusual dynasties related to the Windsors. Published in History Today, Volume: 61 Issue: 4
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What was it like to grow up in Nazi Germany in a family quietly opposed to National Socialism? Giles Milton describes one boy’s experience. Published in History Today, Volume: 61 Issue: 3
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The creation of the modern unified German state in January 1871 constitutes the greatest diplomatic and political achievement of any leader of the last two centuries; but it was effected at a huge personal and political price, argues Jonathan Steinberg. Published in History Today, Volume: 61 Issue: 2
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Chris Wickham revisits an article by J.B.Morrall, first published in History Today in 1959, on the strange, shortlived emperor who in the tenth century sought to rule the lands we now call Germany and Italy. Published in History Today, Volume: 61 Issue: 2
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During the disturbed tenth century in Western Europe, royal power held its ground and extended its authority only in Germany-whence the Emperor Otto III sallied into Italy with the purpose of reviving Roman classical tradition and combining it with the dream of a Christian Commonwealth under imperial aegis. By J.B. Morrall. Published in History Today pre-1980, Volume: 9 Issue: 12
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Graham Darby points to common errors and omissions that should be avoided. |
At the beginning of the ninth century, Charlemagne—already the master of Western Europe—was crowned by a calculating Pope as the supreme sovereign of the Christian world. Peter Munz asks what the real significance of his new title really was? Published in History Today pre-1980, Volume: 9 Issue: 7
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As the daily life of Berlin's Jews became even more difficult under the Nazi regime, rumour and hearsay grew about the fate of those 'evacuated' to the east. How much, asks Roger Moorhouse, did ordinary Berliners know about the fate of their neighbours and was the Holocaust literally unimaginable to the German capital's ordinary citizens, Gentile or Jew? |
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