On April 20, 1937, Berlin-based journalist William L. Shirer made this entry in his diary: “Hitler’s birthday. He gets more ...

The third instalment in a loose trilogy about justice and impunity. The CIA Book Club: The Best-Kept Secret of the Cold War. By Charlie English. Random House; 384 pages; $35. William Collins; £25 ...

This is the second volume of Richard Evans’s magisterial new account of the rise and fall of the Third Reich. In it he chronicles the years between 1933 and 1939 when the dictatorship was established ...

In Germany, the rise of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is a direct product of the total complicity of the mainstream parties.

Many months later, over half a year since leaving the high-rise apartment, after two full revisions of the novel, I woke up on March 28, 2021. Being an atheist, I had no idea it was Palm Sunday.

A column on How Trumusklicans are trying to change history It took William L. Shirer a couple decades to write and then publish “ The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany, ” but ...

Officially known as the German Reich, Nazi Germany was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when it was headed by Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party, who governed by way of a totalitarian ...

The obituary for Peter Sichel began on the front page of The New York Times two weeks ago and continued on nearly an entire page inside the newspaper. It was written by Eric Asimov, chief wine ...

It would be wrong to think that after the fall of the Nazis in 1945, their supporters just disappeared. Especially in the former East Germany in the years since the war, there have always been ...

If anyone is having trouble making sense of what is happening in Washington, D.C., I can recommend an excellent book. It is “The Rise And Fall of the Third Reich,” by William L. Shirer.

25 August 1944: Allied forces liberate Paris 1945: The fall of the Third Reich January 1945: The failure of the German Ardennes Offensive – the “Battle of the Bulge” – exhausts what remains of German ...