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Third Reich

Roger Waters performs on stage during his 'The Wall' show at the Olympic stadium in Berlin on September 4, 2013. (ODD ANDERSEN / AFP)
April 11, 2026, 7:29 am
Sex, Nazism and rock ‘n’ roll: Why rockers love to goose step in the gaslights
In ‘This Ain’t Rock ‘n’ Roll: Pop Music, the Swastika, and the Third Reich,’ music historian Daniel Rachel unpacks role of Nazi symbols for icons from Bowie to Lennon
By Matt Lebovic
Michael Smuss in his home. (Zev Stub/Times of Israel)
October 23, 2025, 10:15 pm
Michael Smuss, last surviving Warsaw Ghetto Uprising fighter, dies at 99
While working to repair Nazi helmets, Smuss stole material for Jewish resistance needed to make Molotov cocktails; he survived the war and moved to US, then to Israel
By CLAUDIA CIOBANU, Melanie Lidman and Kirsten Grieshaber
This illustration photo created May 20, 2024 in Los Angeles shows a frame from a video posted on Donald Trump's Truth Social account displayed on a smartphone in front of a photo of the former US president. (Photo by Chris DELMAS / AFP)
May 22, 2024, 6:42 am
Trump campaign deletes ‘unified Reich’ video; Biden: ‘It’s the language of Hitler’
Spokesperson for ex-president says clip was created by someone outside the campaign and shared by a staffer who did not notice the word before posting on Truth Social
By Agencies
One of nine suspected participants in a coup plot wears handcuffs as he is brought to the courtroom to take the stand in the first set of proceedings in Stuttgart, southern Germany, on April 29, 2024. (Bernd Weißbrod/POOL/AFP)
April 29, 2024, 2:14 pm
9 on trial in Germany for terrorism over alleged far-right coup plot to revive Reich
17 others to face court at later date; defendants include former lawmaker, self-styled prince thought to be leader of group that professed ‘conglomerate of conspiracy theories’
By Kirsten Grieshaber
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova attends Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov's annual end-of-year press conference in Moscow on January 18, 2024. (Alexander NEMENOV / AFP)
January 21, 2024, 10:41 pm
Russia downplays Holocaust’s impact on Jews, pans German defense of Israel at ICJ
FM spokeswoman says Berlin ignores massacres of non-Jews during WWII, criticizes ‘unfettered support’ of Israel; Jerusalem slams Holocaust distortion, thanks Germany for backing
By Michael Horovitz
Then-US president Donald Trump and White House chief of staff John Kelly walk toward Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland, May 4, 2018. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
August 8, 2022, 6:00 pm
Report: Trump demanded his generals be loyal like German generals were to Hitler
New book claims exchange came as top US army officers pushed back against then-president’s plan to hold a military parade in Washington, warning him that’s ‘what dictators do’
By ToI Staff
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeiner delivers a speech during an event in Weimar, Germany, April 11, 2021 commemorating the liberation of the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora concentration camps. (Ronny Hartmann/Pool Photo via AP)
April 11, 2021, 3:48 pm
Buchenwald camp a reminder of Nazi ‘barbarism,’ German president says
Marking 76th anniversary of concentration camp’s liberation, Frank-Walter Steinmeier says it stands for ‘racial fanaticism, torture, murder and elimination’
By AP
ILLUSTRATIVE -- This photo taken June 25, 2015, shows inbound morning rush hour traffic on the Glenn Highway from the Bragaw Street overpass in Anchorage, Alaska (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)
January 30, 2021, 9:41 am
Alaska announces screening changes after issuing ‘3REICH’ license plate
State opens probe into how plate was issued to individual who previously owned ‘FUHRER’ plate; member of state Human Rights Commission booted for defending it as freedom of speech
By BECKY BOHRER
Alaska Department of Administration Commissioner Kelly Tshibaka appears before a state House committee in Juneau, Alaska, Feb. 6, 2020. (Becky Bohrer/AP)
January 27, 2021, 8:48 am
Alaska to investigate issue of ‘3REICH’ license plate, other offensive plates
Official opens probe into how plate was issued; member of state Human Rights Commission booted for defending it as freedom of speech
By BECKY BOHRER
Design Museum Den Bosch (Google Maps)
September 8, 2019, 6:24 pm
Dutch museum defends exhibition on Nazi design, denies glorifying Nazis
Museum in Den Bosch bans photography at ‘Design of the Third Reich’ exhibit; opening met with protests
By ToI Staff
The Brass Band of Huntsville is seen during the Apollo 11 Homecoming Celebration Dinner and Program at the Davidson Center for Space Exploration on July 16, 2019, at the US Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. (LOREN ELLIOTT/AFP)
July 20, 2019, 8:53 pm
Apollo’s legacy: A quiet corner of Alabama haunted by Nazi Germany
Scientists who developed rockets for Third Reich later designed spacecraft for US; their descendants, and history, remain in small city of Huntsville
By Ivan Couronne
People stand around an installation during the official inauguration of a memorial in remembrance of the Institute for the Study and Elimination of Jewish Influence on German Church Life during the Third Reich in Eisenach, Germany, May 6, 2019. The words on the memorial read: 'We have gone astray'. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)
May 7, 2019, 5:11 am
German church unveils testament to Nazi-era ‘dejudification institute’
Lutheran program aimed to eliminate all Jewish influence from Christian life in Germany, including deleting references to Jews in the Bible
By AP
Presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke speaks during a gathering of the National Action Network on April 3, 2019 in New York. (Don Emmert / AFP)
April 5, 2019, 9:12 am
Beto O’Rourke compares Trump’s immigrant rhetoric to Third Reich
Democratic presidential candidate decries US president who ‘not only describes immigrants as rapists and criminals but as animals and an infestation’
By Alexandra Jaffe
A sign reading "Jews are not wanted here," erected somewhere in Germany following the introduction by the Nazis of the Nuremberg race laws in 1935. (Youtube screenshot)
March 12, 2019, 9:49 am
Anne Frank center denies equating jihadists with Jews persecuted by Nazis
Frankfurt-based body faces backlash after tweeting ‘historical context’ to bill that would revoke citizenship of terrorists
By ToI Staff
A photograph of Adolf Hitler together with Rosa Bernile Nienau, a Jewish girl, taken at Hitler's home, the Berghof, in the Bavarian Alps, April 20, 1932. (Alexander Historical Auctions)
November 11, 2018, 11:36 am
Up for auction: Photo of Hitler embracing young girl he knew was Jewish
Rosa Bernile Nienau became known as the Fuhrer’s ‘sweetheart’; Nazi leader maintained contact with her until 1938
By Stuart Winer
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