Author: rreams@rollins.edu

The Phoney war, a term used to describe the relative peace and lack of military action in Western Europe in the first months of WWII, doesn’t mean that absolutely nothing happened, but rather that there was an overall semblance of remaining peace among the countryside as well as the cities. It’s interesting to note that…

Adolf Hitler is viewed as the figure that incited the Second World War and encouraged the creation and implementation of the Holocaust. But in the late 1930s, Hitler was also an incredibly popular figure in Germany. In fact, his 50th birthday—April 20, 1939—was a huge affair in Berlin. The entire city came out in force…