Germany

Milton Goldin explores Himmler’s ambitions to establish the SS as a ‘state within a state’, and highlights schemes the Nazis devised to finance the organisation through industrial enterprise and plundered Jewish assets.

How Napoleon laid up trouble for future generations of Frenchmen by kick-starting Prussian and German domination of Eastern Europe.

Bruce Waller looks at recent debate about modern Germany's greatest statesman.

Janet L. Nelson looks at the history of this church in the small town in the North-Rhine Westfalia region of western Germany.

Gareth Affleck identifies the points to discuss.

Richard Wilkinson challenges the consensus of contempt for the Nazis' leading diplomat.

Ian Locke investigates an intriguing and little-known attempt to commandeer Third Reich assets as reparations - and its mixed results.

Dresden was carpet-bombed by the allied forces over two nights in February 1945. Anthony Clayton on how the aftermath of war has tested belief in the city.

Christopher Ray argues that Hitler's high-profile plan for invading Britain was a blind: his main intention was to fool Stalin into believing he was safe.

Brian Winston casts a critical eye over Leni Riefenstahl's cinematic paean to Nazi aesthetics.