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Making of a dictator: Hitler

Discover how Adolf Hitler seized power in Germany, transforming democracy into dictatorship, and what enabled his meteoric ...
The image of Hitler as a meddler in military operations is powerful and persistent. He was also stubborn, distrusted his generals and relied too much on his own instinct. Geoffrey Megargee examines ...
Prominent historians have cast doubt on new claims that Adolf Hitler had partial Jewish ancestry, decades after the the conspiracy theory was first promoted by the Nazi leader’s personal attorney. In ...
BOSTON — German historian Volker Ullrich waited decades to take on Adolf Hitler. Ullrich, the Fuhrer’s most recent biographer, had already penned acclaimed tomes on Bismarck, Napoleon, and Nazi ...
Dr Leonard Sax claims to have found new evidence to suggest that the Fuhrer may not have been as gentile as he claimed, The Sun reports. Claims about Hitler’s supposed Jewish ancestry were first put ...
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 ...
Adolf Hitler was a master of manufacturing public-security crises to advance his authoritarian agenda. He used inflammatory tactics and rhetoric to disable constitutional protections for the Weimar ...
Towards the end of World War Two, the British Special Operations Executive considered an attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler - an attempt that was never made. Duncan Anderson considers what might have ...
A piece of skull with a bullet hole through it that Russian officials claimed belonged to Adolf Hitler actually came from a woman, scientists at the University of Connecticut have concluded. The ...