Director Oliver Hirschbiegel remembers seeing Bruno Ganz transform into Adolf Hitler for the first time. Hirschbiegel was casting for Der Untergang – aka Downfall – the controversial 2004 film about ...

As the Germans were slowly but steadily realizing they could not face the rising Soviet force by the fall of 1943, Hitler came up with a plan to halt the advance of one of his most hated enemies.

When Lieutenant-Colonel Roswell P Rosengren arrived at Adolf Hitler’s “Führerbunker” in the days after Germany’s surrender in 1945, he wasted little time in examining the bloodstained sofa where the ...

To better understand Hitler, Shakespeare's play Othello can help. The English playwright and poet was wise in the ways of human failing, and specifically with his villainous character, the flag-bearer ...

Anyone with an interest in the history of political vengeance should pay a visit to the rare-book room at the Library of Congress and request the bound volume with the call number DD244.R6. Compiled ...