That Hitler attacked the Soviet Union was, in the author’s view, primarily an economic solution to Germany’s problems. Hitler wanted to conquer “new living space” to secure the raw materials and ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - A new biography of Hitler by a prominent German historian is likely to stir controversy with its argument that the Nazi leader's political acumen has been underestimated and that ...

You probably knew there were ample defectors from the Soviet Union to Nazi Germany during the Second World War... but did you ...

A BIOGRAPHY which helped get Adolf Hitler into power in Germany was written by himself, a historian at the University of Aberdeen has revealed. The book, published in 1923, was published under the ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Adolf Hitler's companion Eva Braun has been treated as an inconsequential figure in the Third Reich by historians but the author of a new biography said Friday she was anything but ...

Adolf Hitler’s biography Mein Kampf is now a best seller in Germany. The book, which was prohibited for sale in the country after World War II, only recently returned to shelves in annotated form and ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: Prison afforded him the leisure and focus to write Mein Kampf. On April 1, 1924, 34-year-old Adolf Hitler — a socially awkward painter and former soldier from Austria — ...

On a gray June day in the summer of 1999, I visited Herrsching, a beautiful resort on Ammersee, a lake in southern Germany. Herrsching was the home of physician Alfred Ploetz, the founding father of ...

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Leni Riefenstal's film techniques were groundbreaking and are still influential today. She did, though, create her most ...

The story of Mildred Harnack, a woman from Milwaukee who led resistance to Adolf Hitler's regime from her Berlin apartment, is personal for biographer Rebecca Donner. Harnack, executed by the Nazis in ...