Germany

Famous as a military event of great strategic ambition, D-Day is also a landmark in the story of Europe's radical pastToday, 6th June, marks the eightieth anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy.

On this day in 1943, Jewish prisoners rose up against the guards at Treblinka Extermination Camp At the beginning of May 1943, a Jewish fighter captured by the Nazis after the was transported to the Treblinka Extermination Camp. He knew his fate.

“How can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to give himself up individually to a righteous cause?” Time and again, students have led the fight against oppression and totalitarianism.

How a group of university students became leaders in the anti-Nazi resistance By the time Hitler invaded Poland in 1939, organised anti-fascism in Germany had been long-since crushed.

A radical poet whose work was burned by the Nazis in Germany... spent his life interpreting the cold facts of political economy, but he still managed to find time for poems. Poetry, he believed, could make vivid the struggle of the masses.