Michiko Kakutani’s review of Volcher Ullrich’s new book Hitler: Ascent, 1889–1939 for the New York Times is, frankly, dark. It starts out simply enough, asking a decades-old question: How, exactly, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Michiko Kakutani did not write "Donald Trump" once -- but she didn't have to. Kakutani is a book critic for The New York Times, and her review of a new Adolf Hitler biography, "Hitler: Ascent, ...
A secret biography of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler commissioned by Soviet dictator Josef Stalin is to be published this month, the book’s British publisher said Friday. Stalin’s “Hitler Book” was ...
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 ...
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 ...
“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 ...
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 ...