11/21/2018 November 21, 2018. A new biography of Adolf Hitler by Volker Ullrich shows how easily a democracy can be destroyed, and portrays the Führer behind the atrocities of World War II and ...

Adolf Hitler pictured in the early 1920s. ... (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, or "Nazi" for short). In 1921, Hitler was voted chairman of the party and took total control.

READING A. N. Wilson’s brief (200 page) biography of Hitler I was constantly reminded of the British officer ordered to make an apparently hopeless assault on a French fort in the Napoleonic War.

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 ...