Berlin, 1933: The Enabling Act After becoming Chancellor, Adolf Hitler consolidated his power rapidly. Amid unrest and ...

Claims that Adolf Hitler, leader of the Nazi Party, commissioned a 60,000-square-foot ballroom addition to the Reich Chancellery in Berlin in 1933 circulated online in late October 2025. The Reich ...

Adolf Hitler took power on January 30, 1933, and within no time at all he had: —let loose the police against Jews and Communists to a degree never seen before; —won emergency powers to govern by ...

POTSDAM, March 21, 1933 (UP) - With a threat to "destroy all those seeking to damage our people," Chancellor Adolf Hitler opened a session of the Reichstag today in an atmosphere of Imperial Germany.

Reductio ad Hitlerum can have the baleful effect of trivializing the Holocaust, which thankfully has no parallel in the modern American context. Yet closely examining Hitler’s rise can yield useful ...

Perhaps the most notorious figure of the 20th century, Adolf Hitler was the head of the National Socialist German Workers Party, the Nazi Party, and became dictator of Germany from the early 1930s ...

In perhaps one of the worst miscalculations in modern political history, Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany in January 1933 in the hopes that he could successfully form a coalition ...

(RNS) — Nine decades ago today (Jan. 30), Adolf Hitler legally became chancellor of Germany. It’s often forgotten he gained that position without a successful insurrection, a violent coup d’état — or ...

History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does have a nasty habit of rhyming. When Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in January 1933, few expected that within eighteen months the Weimar Republic ...