In movies like 'Triumph of the Will' and 'Olympia,' Leni Riefenstahl all but invented the fascist aesthetic. A new ...

For Mommsen, although Hitler was clearly anti-semitic lacked a real idea of what he wanted to do with Jews. In his book Civil Servants in the Third Reich (1966), Mommsen maintained that many different ...

As Berlin burned, Germany’s elite SS divisions—Totenkopf, Das Reich, and others—were reduced to shadows of their former strength. In desperation, the Nazis deployed foreign SS troops and teenage ...