Hitler's personal protection squad grew from a few fiercely loyal, handpicked ruffians into an army with a complicate...

Beer hall brawls, street fighting, and several brushes with death marked Hitler's rise to power in the stormy politic...

During Hitler's first year in office--as he steered Germany abruptly towards tyranny--he faced no fewer than a dozen ...

In one bloody, well-planned purge, Hitler eliminated his political rivals and ended the looming threat from Ernst Rö...

As the Nazis amped up their anti-Semitic and expansionist activities, Jewish groups, Soviet Communists, and Otto Stra...

By 1938, people inside and outside Germany--including some of Hitler's senior military personnel--planned preemptive ...

Convinced that a failed bomb plot had roots in England, a Gestapo counterintelligence officer engineered an elaborate...

Hitler liked to tour cheering crowds in a customized, open-top Grosser Mercedes and later a G4-a predilection that ga...

Hitler appreciated the power of aircraft, not only as a military weapon, but as a political tool. During the early 19...

British operatives targeted Hitler's special train, the Führer-Sonderzug--a rolling fortress on rails--despite its he...

Heavily camouflaged and fortified, Hitler's military headquarters in Poland saw several assassination attempts--inclu...

Hitler's Alpine retreat in Bavaria offered opportunities for a pistol-packing German officer, a sniper, a long-range ...

One member of Hitler's inner circle later claimed to have contemplated flooding the Fuhrer's Berlin bunker with nerve...