IN THE fall of 1946 an American commission consisting of government officials, educators, and scientists toured Germany. (I have a particularly vivid memory of the striking personality of Reinhold ...

Officially known as the German Reich, Nazi Germany was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when it was headed by Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party, who governed by way of a totalitarian dictatorship ...

When Germany was ruled by the Nazis from 1933 until the end of World War II in 1945, the Nazi propaganda machine repeatedly referred to Germany as the Third Reich. Reich is the German word for “empire ...

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 of ...

One night in 1933, after Hitler had taken power, a Jewish journalist in Berlin awoke from uneasy dreams, drenched in sweat. “The thought occurred to me,” she later wrote, “that I might not be the only ...

Born in 1945 and raised by a father who piloted a B24 heavy bomber on 45 combat missions during World War II, I grew up around many other members of the Greatest Generation and realized that fact long ...

The Jewish Book Union here announced that its first publication for 1935 will be Professor Dr. Ismar Elbogen’s new work, “The History of the Jews in Germany.” The book is already on the press and will ...