Mussolini’s rise shows that strongmen are only as powerful as the democratic opposition allows. Failing to take them ...

John Fletcher Sisson (middle), shown here in Germany in 1945, served in the 4th Infantry Division during WWII and returned home with Heinrich Himmler's personal copy of "Mein Kampf."(Photos ...

The camp, established in 1936 under the direction of Heinrich Himmler, just weeks after the Nazis came to power, was initially used mainly for the detention of regime opponents, but later ...

Deep in northwestern Westphalia, Germany, stands a twelfth-century castle conceived by Heinrich Himmler, leader of the ... floor inlaid with a design of the Black Sun, or Sonnenrad—a circle ...

The mission – arranged in secret between a Swedish aristocrat and Adolf Hitler’s right-hand man, SS chief Heinrich Himmler – ultimately saves 15,000 prisoners from Nazi camps. One of the ...

The Black Sun, or Sonnenrad, is a wheel of SS logos once employed by Heinrich Himmler. It’s since become a favorite of neo-Nazi extremists. When a mass shooter targeted Black customers at a ...

In November 1944, amid the hostage diplomacy that Mr. Geroux chronicles, a directive signed by Heinrich Himmler ordered my dad and the other defendants to be re-tried on Jan. 25, 1945. My father ...