Thomas Weber, a professor of history and international affairs at the University of Aberdeen and a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford, is the author of Becoming Hitler: The Making of a Nazi. His research challenges the...

Austria's far-right Freedom Party is on track for its first national election win since the World War II.

A Dutch/German school for teachers with national-socialistic principles is opened by the German minister for Education, Bernhard Rust. Rust and Seyss-Inquart visit several classrooms

Mother's Day in The Netherlands is during the war celebrated as they did in Germany at that time. Mothers with child-rich families receive medals and certificates

Seyss-Inquart gives a speech at a meeting of the NSDAP

At a recently opened police school a first group of young men is trained to become national socialist police officers. The men show some of their newly learned skills

Mussert visits the motor school of the NSKK (the National Sozialistisches Kraftfahr-Korps) where Dutch men are trained

Hitler visits a Nazi rally with large crowds of German onlookers. In Vienna, a 1938 exhibition of The Eternal Jew illustrates hatred of Jews. Dr. Seyss-Inquart delivers an anti-semitic speech on a podium.