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Checking wiki we read .... "Start of World War II In private discussions in 1939, Hitler declared Britain the main enemy to be defeated and that Poland's obliteration was a necessary prelude for that goal." In my kid's 11th grade history book we read .... "Hitler was ready to conquer Europe."...

Stalin stripped the nobility in the Baltic states of their privileges, causing Hitler to relocate them to Prussia in secret readiness to attack Russia. These Baltic Germans received the most desultory price for the confiscation of their splendid estates and buildings and zero compensation...

Even back then, most people knew that the Bolsheviks and Stalin were monsters. So why didn't the allies back Hitler. Well Russia was for the most part an oriental country. In part probably due to them having been ruled by the Mongol Golden Horde for centuries. Did the allies not back Hitler...

A friend of mine is looking for the unit her grandfather served in during World War II and I was hoping someone here might be able to help her out. She has the following information Truppenteil: 3. Kp.le.Radf.StrmBau Btl. 308 I'm guessing Kp is the third Korps and BTL is battalion but the...

Not my title see here Interesting perspective on a subject where one thought there was little that was new to say about the Third Reich. The theory that it was shaped by substance abuse is a new one to me.

I've previously only read about this tangentially, and I've seen numbers of around 150 000 to 200 000 victims, with widely varying proportions of the population in various areas, the Romani within Germany being the worst off. This is thought to have comprised around 15-25% of the population...

Most people, when imagining Hitler speaking, probably think of something like this: nH0Et56Hxt4 He starts out half-yelling, with a hectoring, guttural tone and melodramatic intonation and quickly devolves into a kind of high-pitched barking that is just annoying to listen to (never mind the...

I was watching a program about Eva Braun tonight, and I saw this flag flying in the background of one of the scenes.... Does anyone recognise this?

I am surprised this has not popped up here yet: Have treasure hunters found missing Nazi train stuffed with gold? Real? Hoax?

I am reading about the post war German freikorps to the eventual triumph of the Nazi party in the early thirties. I am personly convinced that without the economic downturn the already declining Nazi party would have faded away. There are several opposing viewpoints, some have merit though I...

Hard to believe it's been a quarter century. 1989 had already been quite a year, and this was the cherry on top.

Why the hell did they take the name "Aryan", even though the Persians were never in Germany proper, and the fact that Cyrus the Great wasn't a racist ******* unlike Hitler?

There's been some off-topic discussion in other threads, and it's a topic of mild interest to me, so I thought I'd give it a thread of its own. Being midway through The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, it seems to me like this: The proximate cause of World War 2 was Adolf Hitler's will to...

In another thread I'd mentioned watching the series The World at War. It's appalling what the Nazis did, in every country they occupied. It's horrible that so many German citizens ignored it, or were happy to benefit from it. I understand that an entire generation had been conditioned by Nazi...

Jane Harman’s father was a Nazi refugee. Her father Dr. Adolph N. Lakes was born in Poland moved to Germany and graduated from medical school in 1935. Then he and his wife came to the United States. How can this be? I thought Jews were an oppressed minority in Germany during this period.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/13/us/nazi-diary/index.html?hpt=hp_t2 Should make interesting reason,though how much Rosenburg was in the loop in the later years of the 3rd Reich is debatable. He was pretty much sidelined as a windbag. But looking forward to reading it none the less. And as somebody...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00gs5n4 This was a superb series the BBC did and the book is even better andit is still pertinant to this day.

Some months ago I bought Adolf Eichmann's autobiography "Ich, Adolf Eichmann", after I found it quoted in other works on the holocaust, and also after I had read Rudolf Höß's autobiography. Days ago, I started reading, and found, to my slight dismay, that the book is published by a publishing...

Historian Wolfgang Haenel has revealed that a book HITLER SPEAKS (aka THE VOICE OF DESTRUCTION) which since it came out in the 1930's had been widely touted as being the secret plans of the nazi leader is nothing but a pack of lies made up by a former disgruntled nazi party official...

Germany pays the last of it's WW I reparations debts.

Having read Van Crevelt's Changing Face of War, my view of Nazi military goals has changed. I'm curious what forum members think. I'd like to pass the moral issue of Nazi strategic goals and focus on the practical side. My question is this: how could the Nazi's ever believe that their grand...

I was wondering if anyone knew any good books on the holocaust. I've been wanting to learn more about it but I'm not sure what books to try on it.

On another forum, we have an individual, who refuses to leave, who regularly posts comments regarding the supposed INTERNATIONAL JEWISH CONSPIRACY. It generally gets fairly annoying (especially considering the forum is on the official web site of Major League Baseball), but I never put anyone...

Long-term they couldn't have held out really, and for the same reasons as the South winning the Civil War: inferior resources/logistics. Still, I don't even want to think about how ugly that could have made the following years.... Course whether or not we beat Japan would make a big diff...