For my new Lockdown course beginning on Monday 5th June Victorian Britain 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times', wrote...

REUNIFICATION & BEYOND When re-unification came, it came quickly. The East German Communist regime crumbled as the whole of Eastern...

Beyond the Wall Katja Hoyer East Germany Charles Rivers Editors East Germany Hourly History Growing up in East...

It seems, with the benefit of hindsight, very strange to western eyes that in the Eastern half of Germany at the end of The Second World...

In the immediate aftermath of The Nazi Third Reich, Germany was divided up between the four victorious Allies (USSR, USA, UK, and France)....

The Third Reich Martyn Whittock Exorcising Hitler Frederick Taylor The Berlin Wall " " Beyond the...

The end of the Second World War did not bring the longed for peace. The Allies (US, USSR, Britain, and France) soon were faced as to how...

I have been recalling family history recently. In doing so I was reminded of my Victorian born grandmother who in Spring always bought...

Hitler (A short biography) AN Wilson Hitler Ian Kershaw Hitler's Last Day Mayo & Craigie Hitler's...

Emergency coins are coins which are issued in times of stress, especially a war. Gunmoney was one such issue In Ireland during the war...

In a sense one can argue that once Hitler took power in 1933 the Second World War was all but inevitable. It is true that few saw that...

Once a name honoured throughout The Holy Roman, and later Austrian, Empire that no explanation would have been necessary. Today probably...

[For earlier periods of German History see numerous blogs below] Killing Hitler Roger Moorhouse Opposing Hitler (Biography of...

Morale is the key problem for wartime Governments to grapple with. Morale is an issue not only for the military forces fighting at The...

As usual this is a short booklist. All the books below carry bibliographies to take you further. The Third Reich Michael Burleigh...

How, and why, did Democracy fail in Germany after World War One? And, how did the Nazi Party emerge victorious in 1933? These are the...

Democracy finally arrived in Germany in the wake of a Civil War that immediately followed the breakdown after World War One. It arrived...

Kaiser Wilhelm II C.Clarke The Sleepwalkers (road to war) C.Clarke Ring of Steel (Germany and Austria at war) A.Watson The...

Once Bismarck had been dismissed by Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1890, Germany's Foreign Policy took a distinct turn to what, in the end, became...

As a small child, in the early 1950s, I had a tall bookcase in my bedroom. Initially filled with Enid Blyton's Noddy series, then...