Famous Historical Topics & Events Chapters

What are some of history's key stories and events which remain famous to this day? Check-out some of those topics.

Heinrich Himmler plans to hide the "evacuation" of the Jews from the world, assuring the Nazis that this is a noble cause.

Herb Morrison reports live as the Hindenburg approaches the landing site and catches fire.

Arriving at Lakehurst Naval Air Station, during her first transatlantic crossing from Germany to America, the Hindenburg (LZ 129) is escorted b...

Learn about mid-19th century New York fashion, places, people and facts.

After WWII, Greece fights a civil war - civilians against the army - and then, in 1953, there is a terrible earthquake.

Hitler will not allow his commander Paulus to surrender, preferring that he commit suicide.

Hitler, sensing the Germans might be losing Stalingrad, forbids his generals from surrendering.

Hitler's campaign during economic hard times ultimately leads to his rise as German Chancellor.

Hitler creates the Nuremberg Laws to discriminate against Jews. On January 20, 1942 leading Nazis met at the Wannsee Conference to discuss, among othe...

Concentration camps, some of which are forced-labor camps and others "death camps," are part of Hitler's "Final Solution." Buchenwald and Flossenburg ...

Hitler's "final solution" is to erase the Jewish race in Europe by gassing them in concentration camps.

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