One of the most evil people in history, Hitler himself believed he enjoyed supernatural protection from God; or sometimes, from "the gods," if he was in a particularly neo-pagan mood. And as you will ...

In July 1938, an international conference was held in Evian, France, to decide the fate of Jews from Germany and Austria. Almost no one in the world was willing to take them in.

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In 1942, as World War II raged in Europe, Adolf Hitler appointed his chief architect, Albert Speer, as Minister of Armaments ...

“It may be,” Edmund Wilson wrote in 1929, “that the United States will develop into a great imperialistic power with all its artists, critics, and philosophers as ineffective and as easily ...

"I'd like to hear his wife say something," he told Maureen Dowd of The New York Times the day after Khan's convention speech. Trump liked to drop hints, to make disturbing implications that his ...