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Goths and Visigoths

Alaric I The Visigoths tribe of Goths are believed to be descendants of an earlier group of Goths called the Thervingi. The Thervingi were the Gothic tribe that first invaded the Roman Empire, in 376, and defeated the Romans at Adrianople in 378. Following Adrianople, the Visigoths and Romans were both trading partners and warring […]

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Reichstag fire, WWII Berlin, Germany

Reichstag Fire

HITLER’S RISE By the late 1920s, Adolf Hitler and his Nationalist Socialist German Workers (Nazi) Party were gaining strength due to growing popular dissatisfaction with the ruling Weimar Republic. Germany’s economic woes in the early 1930s threw the government into further chaos, with President Paul von Hindenburg forced to replace several chancellors within a short […]

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Jews wearing Star of David badges, Lodz Ghetto, Poland, World War II, 1940-1944. The Nazis forced Jews into over-crowded ghettos from which thousands were deported to the death camps.

Anti-Semitism

Anti-Semitism in Medieval Europe Many of the anti-Semitic practices seen in Nazi Germany actually have their roots in medieval Europe. In many European cities, Jews were confined to certain neighborhoods called ghettos. Some countries also required Jews to distinguish themselves from Christians with a yellow badge worn on their garment, or a special hat called […]

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German (November) Revolution in Berlin, Germany, 1918.

Weimar Republic

Germany After World War I Germany didn’t fare well in the years following World War I, as it was thrown into troubling economic and social disorder. After a series of mutinies by German sailors and soldiers, Kaiser Wilhelm II lost the support of his military and the German people, and he was forced to abdicate […]

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American troops throwing darts at a picture of the German Kaiser during World War One. (Credit: Paul Thompson/FPG/Archive Photos/Getty Images)

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When German Immigrants Were America’s Undesirables

Woodrow Wilson thought German Americans couldn’t assimilate.

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German General Alfred Schlieffen, author of the Schlieffen Plan for the defeat of Russian and France. (Credit: Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

Was Germany Doomed in World War I by the Schlieffen Plan?

The Schlieffen Plan, devised a decade before the start of World War I, was a failed strategy for Germany to win World War I.

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The bodies of the British soldiers lying dead in their trench during the Battle of the Somme, 1916. (Credit: Mondadori Portfolio/Getty Images)

Why Was the Battle of the Somme So Deadly?

The Battle of the Somme was one of the largest battles of World War I, and among the bloodiest in all of human history.

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The sinking of Lusitania by a German submarine off the Old Head of Kinsale, Ireland, 1915. The tragedy killed 128 US citizens, helping bring the US into World War I. (Credit: Three Lions/Getty Images)

How the Sinking of Lusitania Changed World War I

A German U-boat torpedoed the British-owned steamship Lusitania, killing 1,195 people including 128 Americans, on May 7, 1915. The disaster set off a chain of events that led to the U.S. entering World War I.

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1938

Munich Pact signed

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1940

Norway surrenders to Germany

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1937

Nazis test new air force, Luftwaffe, on Basque town of Guernica

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1938

Germany annexes Austria

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1942

German saboteurs executed in Washington, D.C.

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1938

Nazis launch Kristallnacht

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