How did Germany shift from a liberalizing state to a Nazi dictatorship? This video distills Hitler’s rise into six forces: (1) a fatally weak Weimar Republic born of defeat—humiliation, reparations, ...

Born out of defeat, the Freikorps were battle-hardened veterans who fought not for peace, but for a Germany they felt betrayed. ‘Very Sad’: Trump Slams Supreme Court Ruling Drew Barrymore wants to ...

On this day [15 January] exactly a century ago Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht were brutally murdered in cold blood by Freikorps troops under the command of the Social Democratic Party. It ...

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Cet article analyse l’histoire de la violence paramilitaire après la Première Guerre mondiale en Allemagne et dans les pays baltes. Par une approche quantitative, l’article apporte des informations ...

The approval and performance of politically-motivated violence has been a core element of fascist or antisemitic activism for a century. German Democratic Republic stamp commemorating the murders of ...

Whether they held Nazi sympathies, disliked communism or were drawn by the financial benefits, many Danes escaped the German occupation to fight for their enemy during the Second World War ...

Although the SPD continues to officially dispute its complicity in the murder of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht a century ago, Wolfgang Thierse, former president of the federal parliament, ...

Today marks the centenary of one of the most horrific and consequential crimes in world history. In Berlin on 15 January, 1919, Freikorps soldiers of the Garde-Kavallerie-Schützen Division arrested ...