On May 10, 1933, university students in 34 university towns across Germany burned over 25,000 books. The works of Jewish authors like Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud went up in flames alongside ...

One can only hope that freedom of speech may prevail, once and for all, and not only in Germany. We usually associate the Gestapo with mass actions, the roundup of Jews or gypsies or communists, but ...

It took Anna Essinger six months of planning to devise the remarkable secret escape of her entire school from Nazi Germany. On the critical day, October 5, 1933, the 54-year-old headmistress’ most ...

As a result of “racial policy,” 64,697 Jews left Germany in 1933 and there has been “a marked decrease in German Jewish population in 1934,” the Nazi government officially announced today. There are ...

Decades after Nazis looted artwork from a Jewish family fleeing Germany in 1933, a painting was returned to the rightful heirs. The painting of two young skaters, “Winter” by American impressionist ...