One night in 1933, after Hitler had taken power, a Jewish journalist in Berlin awoke from uneasy dreams, drenched in sweat. “The thought occurred to me,” she later wrote, “that I might not be the only ...

Oberstdorf, Germany’s southernmost village, sits in Alpine meadows beneath the Himmelschrofen mountain. On the night of March 4, 1933, the local Nazi Party emblazoned the Himmelschrofen with a giant ...