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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

With nationalism and anti-Semitism on the rise around the world, two big new biographies look at the Nazi leader’s march to power. By Talya Zax When not at work on a book about the roots of ...