Brown’s little-known acquisition of Hitler’s personal library and the debate over what these books can or cannot reveal.
Patrick Cockburn discusses his new biography about his father ... In 1930s Germany, many journalists downplayed Adolf Hitler’s ascension to power, with The New York Times writing on January ...
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Lutheran theologian executed by the Nazis, continues to be debated as a symbol of anti-Nazi resistance ...
Shortly before he was hanged by the Nazis in 1945 at age 39, Dietrich Bonhoeffer reportedly told a fellow prisoner: “This is ...
Historians, by contrast, have found it easier to write about key figures, as, for example, Ian Kershaw did in his masterful biography of Adolf Hitler and Stephen Kotkin in his of Joseph Stalin. Yet ...
While humanizing the perpetrators of the Holocaust has long been considered taboo, the 20 portraits in Richard Evans's new ...
During World War Two, Andre Scheinmann became a spy and saboteur for the British and Free French while working undercover ...
In Moscow 1,000,000 copies of President Mikhail Kalinin’s biography, A Book About the ... one came from an old enemy now turned friend—Adolf Hitler: “I beg you to accept my sincerest ...
One visitor was one of Adolf Hitler’s predecessors ... Churchill paused in his revision of “Marlborough” (his enormous biography of a storied ancestor) for a few hours.