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, Claud, with his niece, Laura Flanders.
By Clay Risen Gerd Heidemann, a globe-trotting, high-flying German journalist who thought he had landed the scoop of the century — the private diaries of Adolf Hitler — but who came crashing ...
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 ...