Bringing History to Life Magazine

26 December, 2025

For 12 years, Adolf Hitler ruled over his terrifying regime. Behind him stood men such as the cynical SS chief Heinrich Himmler and the brutal lawyer Hans Frank. But wealthy industrialists, office workers and schoolteachers also took part in Nazism’s crimes. They built weapons for the war industry, fed information to the Gestapo and indoctrinated Germany’s youth to die for the Nazi cause.