Timothy W. Ryback is a historian and director of the Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation in The Hague. He is the author of several books on Hitler’s Germany, most recently Takeover: ...

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Editor’s note: We’ve republished this story, originally published in July, 2024, on the anniversary of Adolf Hitler being sworn in as Germany’s chancellor on Jan. 30, 1933. (JTA) — “It has been said ...

Historian Ryback (Hitler’s First Victims) presents a riveting blow-by-blow account of the six months leading up to Adolf Hitler’s January 1933 appointment as Germany’s chancellor. Describing a nation ...

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In 1992, Ryback wrote a New Yorker article about the picturesque Bavarian town of Dachau, site of the first Nazi concentration camp, in which he ""roundly condemned the residents of Dachau as ...

"Takeover: Hitler's Final Rise to Power," by Timothy W. Ryback, (Alfred A. Knopf: New York), $32.00 hardcover.

Early on April 13, 1933, an official from the prosecutor’s office for Munich District II set off to investigate a crime. Three men had been killed in woodland hard by the abandoned Royal Powder and ...

One of the thousands of victims of the Nazi regime’s program to kill mentally ill people was a relative of Adolf Hitler, two historians said Tuesday. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited ...

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