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The Reichstag passes the Enabling Act, destroying German democ
The Nazis considered nuclear families to be the building blocks of a ‘pure’ German nation The family was exalted in Nazi ideology and propaganda as “the germ cell of the nation”. In the Nazi Party pla
When General Francisco Franco died on 20 November 1975 – 39 years after the start of the brutal civil war that brought him to power – the prospect of a bloodless transition to democracy in Spain appea
The House of Commons, Palace of Westminster, London SW1
Over a long career, John Hardman has specialised to great effect in teasing out, from speeches, decrees, minutes, memoranda, letters, diaries and unsent drafts, the varied moods of French political de
The US Constitution as a straitjacket
A prolonged conflict, a modified Treaty of Versailles and no League of Nations may have transpired without direct American involvement
