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Adolf Hitler

An engraving of a Peruvian forest
Health & Medicine
The chloroquine chronicles: A history of the drug that conquered the world
Outside the house in Austria where Adolf Hitler was born there's a block of stone from the Mauthausen concentration camp. It reads "for peace freedom and democracy, never again fascism, remember the millions of dead."
Conflict
How Hitler’s birthplace in Austria handles its unwanted landmark
Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler in Munich, Germany.
Global Politics
How US journalists normalized the rise of Hitler and Mussolini
A still frame from a film shot by American doctor Ralph H. Major showing a German Nazi event in 1933 or 1934.
Culture
In which Adolf Hitler creeps into your home movies
Survivors attend a ceremony on the site of the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland. Tuesday marked the 70th anniversary of the Nazi camp's liberation by Allied soldiers.
Justice
Why I want to remind you of the Holocaust
Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, 1920
Culture
How the Nazis helped Coco Chanel — and Chanel No. 5
Keisuke Kuwata wears a fake Hitler mustache at the start of the 2014 Red and White Song Competition, a major New Year's Eve institution in Japan.
Culture
Why did this man wear a Hitler mustache on Japanese TV? No one really knows
The Soviet foreign minister, Vyacheslav Molotov, saying farewell to his German counterpart, Joachim von Ribbentrop (right), after a visit to Berlin during the Nazi-Soviet alliance that lasted from 1939 to 1941.
Conflict
This pact between Hitler and Stalin paved the way for WWII
Henry Tandey
Conflict & Justice
The man who could have shot Hitler
Global Politics
Far-right extremist parties find support across Europe
Arts, Culture & Media
Marlins manager Guillen in hot water over Castro comments
Hitler’s one-time top deputy Rudolf Hess exhumed from grave
Lifestyle & Belief
Vatican orders bishop to recant
Arts, Culture & Media
The power of art as propaganda
Conflict & Justice
‘Mein Kampf’ to Be Published Again in Germany
Nazi Rudolf Hess Exhumed From Grave
Conflict & Justice
Tea party still looking for unified voice
Arts, Culture & Media
Global Hit — The Producers in Berlin