After seizing power, Hitler’s first target was the communist party. He promised to “liberate Germany from Marxism,” and he attacked the communist Soviet Union. For historians like Ernst Nolte, Hitler ...

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 prisoners ...

Too many books are written about Hitler. Many are amateur efforts, and even those that aren’t rarely add anything new. Yet this vivid and painstakingly researched volume revises fundamentally how ...

“Do not forget what Amalek did to you,” or so we are commanded in the Book of Deuteronomy. If we must remember an enemy of Israel dating back to distant antiquity, surely we must not forget the man we ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Americans are ambivalent about modern-day dictators. Cut down guys like Saddam or cut them some slack? Times and circumstance are different, but clear lessons about the dangers of "slack" come through ...

The impulsiveness and grandiosity, the bullying and vulgarity, were obvious from the beginning; if anything, they accounted for Adolf Hitler’s anti-establishment appeal. For Germany’s unpopular ...

Michiko Kakutani — her name strikes excitement and fear into the hearts of most writers. The Pulitzer-Prize-winning chief book critic of The New York Times might be the most influential literature ...

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 — 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 the belief ...