Germany

Global armed conflict from 1939 to 1945, including war in Europe, Asia and the Pacific, mass civilian suffering and major geopolitical change.

Global geopolitical rivalry and ideological competition centered on the United States and Soviet Union from the postwar era to the breakup of the USSR.

Major European theater of World War II fought chiefly between Nazi Germany and its allies and the Soviet Union from the 1941 invasion until 1945.

Religious and political transformations that fragmented western European Christianity and reshaped institutions and power.

Rapid partition and consolidation of European imperial control over most of Africa during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Global conflict centered on the European war of 1914–1918, involving empires, colonial territories and multiple military theaters.

German officers attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler and seize control of the Nazi state.

Sophie Scholl and other White Rose resistance members were arrested, tried and executed by Nazi authorities in February 1943.

European powers and the United States formalized rules for African colonial claims during the Berlin Conference.

Allied landings in Normandy on 6 June 1944.

The opening of the Berlin Wall marked the collapse of the physical division between East and West Berlin and initiated the end of the divided-city order.

European powers agreed to the cession of Czechoslovak borderlands to Nazi Germany at Munich.

Members of a Palestinian militant group took Israeli Olympic team members hostage in Munich, ending in their deaths and a failed rescue.

The International Military Tribunal prosecuted leading Nazi officials for crimes against peace, war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Senior Nazi officials coordinated implementation of the genocidal persecution of European Jews at Wannsee.

Soviet troops captured Berlin during the final weeks of Nazi Germany; the film depicts the collapsing regime in the capital.

Luther's theses became a symbolic starting point for the Protestant Reformation.

Capital of Bavaria, Germany.

The kingdom attempting to exercise control over Scotland during the conflict.

Subcamp no. 4 of the Kaufering complex of Dachau concentration camp.

One of the five Allied landing beaches in Normandy and the site of the film’s opening battle.

City in Bavaria, Germany.

City in Germany.

Former state in Central Europe, 1918–1992.