In the opening decade of the century German national state united the majority of German speaking population of Europe, excluding only those in Switzerland and Austro-Hungarian Empire, of the world. ..…

Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin/bpk/Rotraut Forberg/Art Resource Dietrich Bonhoeffer with his twin sister Sabine in London, just after his return from America and before his final return to Germany, July 1939 . In January 1933, German conservatives, facing a political deadlock, engineered a way..…