I was talking with Mike, a friend of mine I’ve known since Ronald Reagan was still in the White House, and he asked me a question out of left field: What if we went on a tour of World War II European ...

Germany's newest bestseller is a 1930s novel that collected dust as an unpublished manuscript for almost a century before now ...

Drawn from the British aristocracy to the heart of Hitler’s inner circle, Unity Mitford’s life was a disturbing collision of ...

When the Nazis came to power in 1933, the Ophuls clan left Germany for Paris. Then ... one interview was with Albert Speer, Hitler’s chief architect and minister ... he said of Speer.

Albert Speer took over and decided to launch mass production of a new, lightweight locomotive: the BR-52. Fourteen manufacturers in Belgium, France, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Poland, Germany and ...

Bishop devotes a short section to Hitler’s one-day visit to Paris. Hitler had mixed emotions regarding Paris, describing it as “this great city which had always fascinated me.” He told Albert Speer, ...

Hitler on his tour of Paris posing in front of the Eiffel Tower in June 1940 ... “It was the dream of my life to be permitted to see Paris,” Hitler told Speer.

In January 1946, Charlotte was transferred to Berlin. It was in Berlin that she participated in the interrogation of Albert Speer, the man Adolf Hitler appointed to oversee German’s wartime economy.

Speer believed – and Hitler agreed – that the city’s fascist architecture should be constructed without the use of iron girders and reinforced cement, because such modern materials would ...

In 1936, Hitler ordered the architect Albert Speer to manufacture an intense focus on the stadium as the Games’ centerpiece. The torch relay, ... Paris upended that history.

In “Paris 1944,” Patrick Bishop tells the story of the German occupation during World War II, ... Adolf Hitler with the architect Albert Speer, left, and the sculptor Arno Breker in 1940.