On July 17, 1918, in the waning months of World War I, Pvt. Adolf Hitler of the 16th Bavarian Reserve Regiment escorted two American prisoners to brigade headquarters. The encounter with his prisoners ...

The impulsiveness and grandiosity, the bullying and vulgarity, were obvious from the beginning; if anything, they accounted for Adolf Hitler’s anti-establishment appeal. For Germany’s unpopular ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

“Do not forget what Amalek did to you,” or so we are commanded in the Book of Deuteronomy. If we must remember an enemy of Israel dating back to distant antiquity, surely we must not forget the man we ...

The Art of Self-Help in a Self-Absorbed Era Hitler: A Biography, by Peter Longerich (Oxford University Press, 1,344 pp., $39.95), and Hitler: A Global Biography, by Brendan Simms (Basic Books, 704 pp.

After seizing power, Hitler’s first target was the communist party. He promised to “liberate Germany from Marxism,” and he attacked the communist Soviet Union. For historians like Ernst Nolte, Hitler ...

In the annals of scholarly research, it is possible that nobody in history has been written about more than Adolf Hitler. By 1975, 30 years after he killed himself at the end of World War II, more ...

Key point: Time in prison let him write his manifesto and cultivate his cult of personality. The book would become very popular, and aid the Nazis’ in upcoming elections. On April 1, 1924, 34-year-old ...

We think we know the face, among the most recognized in history. Yet during the rise and even the rule of Adolf Hitler, his face was something of a cipher. “Wie sieht Hitler aus?” asked the German ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Peter Fritzsche HITLER Downfall 1939-1945 By Volker Ullrich “Never Again.” Adolf Hitler repeated ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Adolf Hitler's companion Eva Braun has been treated as an inconsequential figure in the Third Reich by historians but the author of a new biography said Friday she was anything but ...