The Third Reich – News, Research and Analysis – The Conversation

March 7, 2025

New Dietrich Bonhoeffer biopic is a grossly misleading portrait of the anti‑Nazi dissident

Barry Langford, Royal Holloway, University of London

Again and again, Bonhoeffer substitutes conventionalised melodrama for difficult history.

Berliners giving the Nazi salute following the announcement of the German invasion of Poland on September 1 1939. Sueddeutsche Zeitung Photo|Alamy

January 31, 2024

How the social structures of Nazi Germany created a bystander society

Ellen Pilsworth, University of Reading

The German population was transformed under Nazism into a “bystander society” – even before the conditions of wartime normalised acts of excessive violence.

Samuel Willenberg, the last survivor of the Treblinka uprising, poses for a picture at his art studio in Tel Aviv, Israel, in 2010. AP Photo/Oded Balilty

April 11, 2023

Defying the Holocaust didn’t just mean uprising and revolt: Remembering Jews’ everyday resistance on Yom HaShoah and year‑round

Chad S.A. Gibbs, College of Charleston

Yom HaShoah, Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, pointedly commemorates Jewish resistance to the Nazis.

In this March 1938 photo, Adolf Hitler salutes German troops parading in Vienna, Austria, the country of his birth. (AP Photo)

August 13, 2019

Understanding how Hitler became German helps us deal with modern‑day extremists

Klaus Meyer, Western University

Adolf Hitler’s rise to power contains important lessons for us today when it comes to dealing with modern-day extremists.

Articles on The Third Reich

Displaying all articles