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 until his suicide in 1945.
In an attempt to signal Germany's return to the world community after defeat in World War I, the International Olympic Committee awarded the games to Germany in 1931, before Adolf Hitler rose to power.
As the tide of World War II was turning against Germany, Joseph Goebbels gave his "Total War" speech at the Berlin Sportpalast to a carefully selected audience of 14,000.
Martin Kitchen is an internationally recognized expert on German and Austrian military and economic history. Here he answers questions on Joseph Goebbels, the Third Reich, and America.
Read about the rise in African American higher education and publications, along with African Americans who served in the military during this time period.
