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In his 1943 book, Hypnotism, psychologist Professor George Hoben Estabrooks described Hitler as ‘the world’s best hypnotist.’ He went on to describe the five components of his approach: Emotional contagion…

The years following the signings of the armistice in 1918 were desperate ones for the German economy and its defeated people. There was political unrest, strikes, hyperinflation, and appalling street…

Between the 9th and 10th of November, eighty-years-ago today, vast quantities of glass littered Germany’s  streets after Nazi  smashed Jewish homes, stores and synagogues. This became known as Kristallnacht (in Yiddish…

On the morning of November 11th, 1918, American soldiers were approaching a German machine gun post outside the village of Chaumont-devant-Damvillers in Lorrains. Against the orders of his friend, Sergeant Ernest Powell,…

On May,11,1933 Edmund headed a routine faculty meeting that was to prove his last. A letter to the University’s curator, from Bernhard Rust, the Prussian Minister for Science, Art and…