Adolph Hitler’s 56th birthday, April 20, 1945, was a warm spring day—the fourth in a row for Berlin. Among the ardent Nazis, such days...

Today (November 9, 1919) marks the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Was it a coincidence that the wall came down...

The Wall Street crash of 1929 was the final straw that broke the back of Germany’s first democracy. The fledgling Weimar Republic, which...