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Rudolf Hess (1894-1987) was deputy leader of the German Nazi Party and a key figure in the fascist regime of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) until his bizarre decision in 1941 to fly to Scotland. Hess believed he could persuade Britain to...

Richard Wagner (1813-1883) was a German composer of Romantic music most famous for his epic operas like The Ring, Tannhäuser, and Tristan and Isolde. Wagner was concerned throughout his career with the theme of redemption through...

A 1924 photograph showing the defendants at their trial for treason of key participants of the Beer Hall Putsch of November 1923 in Munich, Germany, a failed coup d'etat led by Adolf Hitler (1889-1945). (German...

A 1923 photo showing a Nazi Party gathering at the Bürgerbräukeller beer hall in Munich, Germany. The hall was the location of the Nazi Beer Hall Putsch in November 1923, a failed coup d'etat led by Adolf Hitler...

A 1939 photograph showing Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) at the Nazi memorial in Munich which commemorated the Beer Hall Putsch of November 1923, a failed coup d'etat led by Hitler. (German Federal Archives)

An 1874 oil on canvas painting, Monet Painting in His Studio Boat, by Edouard Manet (1832-83), the French modernist painter. Claude Monet (1840-1926) took the impressionist ideal of painting outdoors one step...

Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) was a German Renaissance artist who is considered one of the greatest painters and engravers in history. A native of Nuremberg, Dürer was famous in his own lifetime at home and abroad for his oil paintings...

The Anschluss ('fusion') of 12 March 1938 was the annexation and formal union of Austria with Germany. Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), the Nazi leader of Germany, dreamed of an empire which enclosed all German speakers, his 'Greater Germany'...

The Constantinian Excerpts, or Excerpta Constantiniana is the conventional name given to the mid-10th Century Byzantine palace encyclopedia commissioned by the scholar emperor Constantine...

This infographic illustrates the rise of Nazi Germany in the aftermath of the First World War (1914-18), when the Treaty of Versailles (1919) imposed harsh reparations and territorial losses on Germany, leading...