the Beer Hall Putsch in Munich, a failed takeover of the government in Bavaria, a state in southern Germany.

Hitler was convicted of treason and sentenced to five years in prison. He spent less than a year behind bars, during which time he dictated “Mein Kampf,” his political autobiography. The putsch and Hitler’s subsequent trial turned him into a national figure.

In 1923, Adolf Hitler was 34, an age when most people have finished school and settled into an occupation. He was a high-school dropout, however, and a failed artist whose military service during World War I (1914-18) had been the high point of his life.

The Oxford Dictionary defines charisma as a “compelling attractiveness or charm that can inspire devotion in others.” With this definition in mind, the word charisma tends to have a positive connotation in everyday use. So, how can it possibly be applied to Adolf Hitler?

Contrary to the popular view of someone charismatic Hitler was not a very social person. He was unable to build intimate relationships with people and failed at making friends. Yet, it was already clear at the time that Hitler possessed charisma.

His calculations about where power really lay in Germany and how to best manipulate the emotions of ordinary Germans

In addition, Hitler generated enormous – and genuine – support. His views very often matched those of huge numbers of the German population. That’s something incomprehensible if we take at face value the portrayal of Hitler as a screaming nightmare.

As Spaun saw Hitler staring at him he felt as if Hitler’s eyes looked directly into his innermost thoughts. And when Hitler held on to the back of von Spaun’s chair, Spaun felt “a trembling from his fingers penetrating me. I actually felt it. But not a nervous trembling. Rather I felt: this man, this body, is only the tool for implementing a big, all-powerful will here on Earth. That’s a miracle in my view.”

Donald Trump has been obsessed with race for the entire time he has been a public figure. He had a history of making racist comments as a New York real-estate developer in the 1970s and ‘80s.

“Black guys counting my money! I hate it. … I think that the guy is lazy. And it’s probably not his fault, because laziness is a trait in blacks.

The government released its first official measure of how arts and culture affect the economy.

On Thursday, the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis and the National Endowment for the Arts released the first-ever estimates of the creative sector's contributions to U.S. gross domestic product based on 2011 data, the most recent figures available. GDP measures the nation's production of goods and services.

Britain’s foreign secretary has said that President Donald Trump has “an absolute duty” to prepare for war with North Korea—but urged the rogue state to return to the table for talks.

“The crucial question Kim Jong Un surely needs to ask himself is whether his current activities are making Pyongyang any safer for himself and his regime,” Johnson added.

Johnson praised the U.S.’s position on talks with North Korea. “It is right that [Secretary of State] Rex Tillerson has specifically opened the door to dialogue,” Johnson said. 

But since Trump is apparently here to stay and has amplified his trade rhetoric, a review of one of those plans—to impose high tariffs on Chinese goods—is now warranted. So here we are, and what a disaster this plan is.

According to the Department of Energy’s 2017 U.S. Energy and Employment Report, roughly 300,000, or 14%, of new jobs created last year were in the energy sector. Of that, many are in either renewable energy, like wind and solar, or in energy efficiency, which alone added 133,000 new jobs in 2016, or 44% of new energy jobs overall.

China stays committed and consistent 

Through a series of unwise if not reckless moves, Donald Trump has already harmed the world's most significant bilateral relationship and, by doing so, is taking our global village on a dangerous path since there can't be global prosperity and peace without strong China-U.S. synergies.

As President Donald Trump continues to spout threats against North Korea, China entreated the U.S. to please “cool it” and “stop with the games.”

However, it warned, this “strategy could backfire bigly.”

Neither the US nor China is a reliable ally or a model. Both see the globe in transactional terms that give priority to their own national advantage. As Theresa May has found in her meetings with Xi and Trump, both are also dangerous for individual smaller nations to deal with. In such a world, the strength in numbers of the European Union could matter very much indeed. In this context, as in others, the madness of Brexit creates a massive distraction from these larger realities.

For the first time, we’re starting to see glimpses of an Asia strategy coming from the Trump administration — specifically, a strategy to counter China’s now nearly four-year-long Belt and Road Initiative (originally known as ‘One Belt, One Road’).

North Korea building its BIGGEST EVER submarine to put enemies in nuke firing line

The U.S. Navy is conducting joint drills with South Korea navy in a show of sea and air power designed to warn off North Korea from any military action. Including the deployment of USS Ronald Reagan, a 100,000-ton nuclear powered aircraft carrier.

The hermit kingdom’s state-run propaganda slammed President Trump’s decision to remove the US from Unesco and the Paris Climate agreement.

North Korea: Behind the headlines, propaganda and politics

When New York Times op-ed columnist Nicholas Kristof traveled North Korea recently, the five-day trip turned out to be "very different" from his prior two visits.

"North Korea is always a bizarre place and there's always a certain amount of over-the-top rhetoric. But this time the country has really galvanized for war," Kristof said

They call it the Fatherland Liberation War. We call it the Korean War. (It’s easy to forget that the names of wars are merely decided by people, and not always agreed upon.) And while they celebrate July 27 as the Day of Victory in the Great Fatherland Liberation War (and built the Victorious War Museum), the war, for North Korea, is not truly over.

The official hymn to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un–each leader has gotten one–is called “Onwards Toward The Final Victory.” “Final victory” and “final confrontation” are oft-used phrases in North Korean state rhetoric

Trump: ‘I love war’

On April 6, 1917, two days after the U.S. Senate votes 82 to 6 to declare war against Germany, the U.S. House of Representatives endorses the decision by a vote of 373 to 50, and the United States formally enters the First World War. When World War I erupted in 1914,...

America enters World War I - Apr 06, 1917

On April 2, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson went before a joint session of Congress to request a declaration of war against Germany.

Wilson cited Germany’s violation of its pledge to suspend unrestricted submarine warfare in the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean, as well as its attempts to entice Mexico into an alliance against the United States, as his reasons for declaring war.

While Wilson weighed his options regarding the submarine issue, he also had to address the question of Germany’s attempts to cement a secret alliance with Mexico. On January 19, 1917, British naval intelligence intercepted and decrypted a telegram sent by German Foreign Minister Arthur Zimmermann to the German Ambassador in Mexico City. The “Zimmermann Telegram” promised the Mexican Government that Germany would help Mexico recover the territory it had ceded to the United States following the Mexican-American War. In return for this assistance, Germany asked for Mexican support in the war.

As much as the U.S. wanted to stay neutral during World War I, it proved impossible. This meant the U.S. had to raise the forces and money to wage war. Find out how Americans played their part in WWI in this lesson.

April 6th, 1917

Britain, propaganda, the sinking of ships by German U-boats, and a German attempt in the Zimmermann Note to get Mexico to declare war on the U.S. pushed the U.S. to getting involved.