After her mother died four years ago, Francie Heller started going through all the papers and documents her parents left ...

An unnamed Russian businessman was top bidder at the previous auction. Hitler applied to art school in Vienna but was rejected. He then joined the army and fought in World War 1. Westwood-Brookes ...

The visit was not for military purposes — he left that to his generals — but for his one true love: art ... to be exhumed from Vienna and buried next to his father. Hitler also found ...

Only two places in Vienna may legally say they have the original recipe: the Hotel Sacher and the Café Demel. It was ...

Still, when crises erupt, even spin dictators often revert to more traditional tactics. Russia’s Putin has cracked down violently on protesters and jailed opposition leaders. Meanwhile, more brutal ...

Kehlmann's "The Director" is a story of artistic compromise. Some of its scenes are inspired by his father's life under ...

For a moment I doubted whether this was something I had actually seen—could I have dreamed it? How dark it had been, how ...

My favorite novel of all time” is an antidote to “Of Mice and Men,” he promises. His new book, “Anima Rising,” is a playful ...

Badar, Fauzia and Karim—three people from different walks of life—come of age in Tanzania. The author’s first novel since ...

Shortly after, Hitler's beloved mother died. He moved to Vienna and scratched out a precarious bohemian existence sleeping in hostels and painting postcards. Here he began to develop many of the ...

MOORE: Right. He had to. There's somebody who didn't get into the Vienna Academy of Fine Art - a young fellow named Adolf Hitler. The social circumstances of Vienna at the time is that there were a ...