Reductio ad Hitlerum can have the baleful effect of trivializing the Holocaust, which thankfully has no parallel in the modern American context. Yet closely examining Hitler’s rise can yield useful ...

A brilliant new book concludes that Hitler’s seizure of power in 1933 was far from inevitable—and aided by the connivance of German elites who underestimated him at every turn. Timothy Ryback, 53 Days ...

Hitler, born evil or a product of his environment? We asked the public. Who was really to blame for the Nazis’ rise to power?

Greg Lukianoff (President of FIRE) and Prof. Nadine Strossen (former President of the ACLU) have an excellent post on this subject; here's the beginning, though it's worth reading in its entirety: ...

This movie describes the life of Adolf Hitler from childhood to manhood, and how he became so powerful. It describes his poor childhood in Austria, it describes World War I from his point of view, and ...

I BELIEVE there are three main questions about the Nazi era which have to be answered. Why did it happen? How did it happen? What were its results? William L. Shirer’s immensely valuable book, The ...

Germans are known for angst in general, and angst about inflation in particular. After all, hyperinflation during the Weimar Republic led to the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, right? That ...

Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) was a mediocre who rose to power because of the blindness and ignorance of the Germans, who believed he was nothing more than an eccentric dreamer. But when the crisis of 1929 ...

The most powerful scenes in "Hitler: The Rise of Evil" don't focus upon him, but the people who elevated him to power, if only in the name of opportunism. One was Ernst Hanfstaengl (Liev Schreiber), ...