The Autobahn Myth
Uwe Oster on the motorway prototype that Hitler hijacked.
Germany
The Kaiser and his Court
John Rohl reveals monarchical mentalities and structures in Imperial Germany.
Justice Seen, Justice Done? Abolishing Public Executions in 19th-Century Germany
Richard Evans looks at the social and intellectual pressures that forced Germany to rethink how and why it punished wrongdoers.
The Causes of the Thirty Years War
Graham Darby spins a thread to guide you through the labyrinth of The Causes of the Thirty Years War.
The Execution of Martin Luther
How important was the man to the movement? Andrew Pettegree asks what would have happened to the Reformation had the Diet of Worms witnessed its leader’s martyrdom.
The Battle for Art in the 1930s
David Elliott looks at how Mussolini, Stalin and Hitler used culture to their own ends and how the ramifications of this has continued to the present.
Who Voted For Hitler?
David Welch attributes the Nazi leader's electoral success to much more than slick propaganda.
The Nation in Arms: Germany and France 1789-1939
Omer Bartov asks how the armies of lords and kings became the forces of peoples and nations.
Hitler and Carlyle's 'Historical Greatness'
Alan Steinweis considers how a Victorian historian's hero-worship became entangled with the propaganda visions of the Nazis a century later.
Germany's Unconditional Surrender
The German historian Reimer Hansen chronicles the last days of the Nazi regime and shows how the detailed response to the Allied demands had a critical impact on the shape of post-war Europe.