In 1921, in a Munich beer hall, newly appointed Nazi party leader Adolf Hitler gave a Christmas speech to an excited crowd. According to undercover police observers, 4,000 supporters cheered when ...

Catholic resistance to the Nazis both inside Germany and at the Vatican waxed outspoken last week. First the Vatican newspaper Osservatore Romano published the vigorously anti-Nazi Lenten pastoral of ...

(The Conversation) — Badges and other wearable markings had a long history of being used to target Jewish people in Europe. (The Conversation) — Growing up in Belgium, I’d hear the story of how my ...

Fascination with Nazism's incomprehensible evil is unending, witness the recent made-for-TV movie on CBS, the new "Hitler's Diaries" paperback and video, and many other books and articles. The ...

While thousands of young Americans prepared to receive their first Easter Communion, 1,100,000 German youths, just turned 14, had a first Nazi “communion” two weeks before Easter—complete with organ ...

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