He used the constitution to shatter the constitution.

In his prime, German journalist Gerd Heidemann was a swashbuckling correspondent for Stern, a widely read Hamburg weekly similar to Life magazine. His reportorial sleuthing had earned him the ...

Greatest single news event of 1938 took place on September 29, when four statesmen met at the Führerhaus, in Munich, to redraw the map of Europe. The three visiting statesmen at that historic ...

For years now we’ve heard that even moderately conservative Republicans are “far right” and deserving of the “Nazi” label. A ...

Located on Straße des 17. Juni and close to the Brandenburg Gate, the Soviet War Memorial commemorates the Soviet soldiers who died during the Second World War. The Tiergarten Soviet War Memorial is ...

BERLIN — When German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s coalition government fell last week and new elections were announced, the question was not whether parties on the fringes of the Bundestag ...

At one point in Defining Hitler its author asks the reader the rhetorical question: why bother to read this book? For many writers this would be a merited act of authorial self-destruction. In Haffner ...

To the top men of the Columbia Broadcasting System, it is a matter of concern that their news broadcaster Edward R. Murrow, whose baritone voice over the C.B.S. radio and austere presence on C.B.S ...

Matthias Kuntzel is the author of the award-winning book Jihad and Jew-Hatred: Islamism, Nazism and the Roots of 9/11. In this essay in intellectual history he argues that the main cause of both ...

In the recent debates on the race question in South Africa a claim has been persistently made that ‘blacks can’t be racist’. This is a statement often, though not always, made by intellectuals who ...

Brown’s little-known acquisition of Hitler’s personal library and the debate over what these books can or cannot reveal.

Thousands of men of Jewish descent and hundreds of what the Nazis called ‘full Jews’ served in the military with Hitler’s knowledge. The Nazis allowed these men to serve but at the same time ...