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The twentieth century saw the rise and fall of many dictatorships that subjugated and killed millions of people. With two totalitarian regimes, twentieth-century Germany holds a special place not only in the minds of historians and other academics but of the international community as a whole. Amongst the most infamous regimes of the era is National Socialist (NS) Germany, which, in its short existence, fundamentally transformed the European landscape on multiple levels. The Holocaust in particular, which stands for the horror of Nazi crimes committed against humanity, genocide, and the cruel extermination machine that murdered about six million Jews and countless others, marks the by far darkest chapter in German history.
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Winston Churchill delivered a speech after World War II on 5 March 1946 at Westminster College, Missouri about the state of Europe and the Russian sphere of influence in Eastern Europe. For the full speech, see Winston Churchill (1946) The Sinews of Peace, quoted in Mark A. Kishlansky (ed.) (1995) Sources of World History (New York: HarperCollins), 298–302.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization. For further information on the history of NATO, see John C. Milloy (2006) The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, 1948–1957: Community or Alliance? (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press).
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Voss, M.T. (2016). Introduction. In: Regimes of Twentieth-Century Germany. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137598042_1
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