Adolf Hitler

Calling Time on Hitler's Hoax

A 90-year-old photograph of the future dictator soon after leaving prison still manages to fool the world’s media outlets.

New Light on Hitler’s Youth

Thin, pale, solitary, a day-dreamer, opinionated, rebellious, with sudden bursts of energy that quickly evaporated, D.C. Watt writes that Hitler as a boy is a strange forerunner of the would-be world-conqueror.

Hitler: The Philosopher Führer

During his 1924 incarceration Adolf Hitler attempted to appropriate the ideas of some of Germany’s greatest thinkers and philosophers.

Hitler's British Lair

In the event of a successful Nazi invasion of Britian, Adolf Hitler proposed rural Shropshire as his headquarters. Roger Moorhouse explores why he would have chosen such a location.

Hitler's Turncoat Tutor

Benjamin Ziemann examines the enigma of Karl Mayr, the reclusive army officer who nurtured Adolf Hitler’s early political career.

Hitler & the Bomb-Plot Part III: In Paris

Only the infirmity of purpose displayed by the key-figure at the top, John Wheeler-Bennett writes, prevented the revolt against Hitler, which had failed in Berlin, from being continued successfully from Paris