Philipp Freiherr von Boeselager, believed to be the last surviving member of the inner circle of plotters who attempted to kill Adolf Hitler in 1944 with a briefcase bomb, died Thursday. He was 90.
There is something wonderfully ironic about the Olympic torch, which is making its journey around the world with what appears to be, a big "KICK ME" sign on it for China.
German historians want Adolf Hitler's infamous manifesto, "Mein Kampf," to be republished in the country before the copyright lapses in 2015.
Max Mosley's curious S&M session has put him in the spotlight. His parents being celebrity Hitler fans doesn't help
A new exhibit shows the plans that Hitler, along with his trusted architect Albert Speer, had made to turn Berlin into a capital for the new Germania
Germany's Angela Merkel will make history Tuesday when she becomes the first German chancellor to address Israel's parliament, the Knesset.
1886 Twenty-four-year-old Welsh cyclist Arthur Linton dies during a race from Bordeaux to Paris; though the cause of death is reported as typhoid fever, he is believed to have taken trimethyl, a stimulant.
Treasure hunter Christian Hanisch told CNN Thursday that the hunt for Nazi Gold and possibly the legendary Amber Room will end Friday after the two men leading the expedition had a disagreement.
Digging has resumed at a site in the southeastern German town of Deutschneudorf, where treasure hunters believe there are almost 2 tons of Nazi gold and possibly clues to the whereabouts of the legendary Amber Room, a prize taken from a Russian castle during World War II.
Think Barack Hussein Obama has it rough campaigning for president with a name like that? The Illinois senator has nothing on Frankenstein Momin. Or Billy Kid Sangma. Or Adolf Lu Hitler Marak.
Philipp Freiherr von Boeselager, believed to be the last surviving member of the inner circle of plotters who attempted to kill Adolf Hitler in 1944 with a briefcase bomb, died Thursday. He was 90.
There is something wonderfully ironic about the Olympic torch, which is making its journey around the world with what appears to be, a big "KICK ME" sign on it for China.
German historians want Adolf Hitler's infamous manifesto, "Mein Kampf," to be republished in the country before the copyright lapses in 2015.
Max Mosley's curious S&M session has put him in the spotlight. His parents being celebrity Hitler fans doesn't help
A new exhibit shows the plans that Hitler, along with his trusted architect Albert Speer, had made to turn Berlin into a capital for the new Germania
Germany's Angela Merkel will make history Tuesday when she becomes the first German chancellor to address Israel's parliament, the Knesset.
1886 Twenty-four-year-old Welsh cyclist Arthur Linton dies during a race from Bordeaux to Paris; though the cause of death is reported as typhoid fever, he is believed to have taken trimethyl, a stimulant.
Treasure hunter Christian Hanisch told CNN Thursday that the hunt for Nazi Gold and possibly the legendary Amber Room will end Friday after the two men leading the expedition had a disagreement.
Digging has resumed at a site in the southeastern German town of Deutschneudorf, where treasure hunters believe there are almost 2 tons of Nazi gold and possibly clues to the whereabouts of the legendary Amber Room, a prize taken from a Russian castle during World War II.
Think Barack Hussein Obama has it rough campaigning for president with a name like that? The Illinois senator has nothing on Frankenstein Momin. Or Billy Kid Sangma. Or Adolf Lu Hitler Marak.
What is the best form of resistance when the world around you is corrupts? The Oscar-nominated film The Counterfeiters argues that survival trumps all.
After this week's firestorm over Will Smith's remarks on Hitler, which he explains were taken out of context, the Anti-Defamation League has welcomed and accepted his clarifying statement.
Norman Mailer, perhaps the most towering figure in 20th-century American literature, died today of acute renal failure at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City at the age of 84, his literary executor said.
The discovery of two albums detailing stolen French art that the Nazis were to take to Germany for Adolf Hitler's personal collection was announced Thursday at the National Archives.
A friend once told me about the Buddhist concept of pain without suffering; it's a notion that fascinates me. I mean, is it really possible to say, "Yep, my stomach aches, all right, but I don't have to add insult to injury by letting that pain run amok: I can decide to skip the part where I moan, 'Now I can't meet my friends at the movie and I'll probably miss work tomorrow, which means I'll blow my deadline, lose my job and die penniless and alone, never having seen "Dreamgirls.'"
I could use your insight -- I rode the telecom wave on the technical side, going from grunt to seasoned analyst with plum assignments, huddles with executives and regular travel to some cool places. I even made it to the adminisphere, but only briefly as that particular outfit folded not long after I arrived. Then the rest of the sector caved and it was every man for himself to the lifeboats, for any job available.
The German government might consider Scientology a cult but they're now going to allow Tom Cruise to finish his film
Tom Cruise has broken his silence and is defending his controversial role as the German colonel famous for a failed attempt to kill Adolf Hitler.
Anne King was 19 and earning $12 a week in a dime store when she was recruited in 1942 to learn how to make airplane parts. She worked at Republic Aviation on Long Island as a mechanic and riveter on P-47 Thunderbolt fighters and other aircraft.
German police have charged the leader of a leading far-right political party with inciting racial hatred after he recommended Adolf Hitler's former deputy for the Nobel peace prize.
An auction house in England plans to sell board games that German children played during World War II, winning points by destroying British cities and ships.
Eleven people were injured when they fell off the back of a truck during the shooting of Tom Cruise's latest film in Berlin, police said on Monday.
Shock rocker Marilyn Manson is being sued by a bandmate for using their earnings to buy Nazi paraphernalia, African masks made of human skin, the full skeleton of a 4-year-old Chinese girl - and ex Dita Von Teese's $150,000 engagement ring.
The country doesn't want Hollywood's top gun, and outspoken Scientologist,portraying its most beloved anti-Nazi
As Rabbi Marvin Hier scans the world, he sees a need for remembrance and a call for action.
He fought and triumphed over Hitler, Tojo, international Communism and a host of supervillains, but he could not dodge a sniper's bullet.
The auction of a rare 1939 German race car, which had been postponed pending an investigation into the car's history, is back on. The car had been expected to get the highest price ever paid for any automobile at auction.
The auction of a rare 1939 German race car, which had been expected to command the highest price ever paid for any automobile at auction, has been postponed, the Christie's auction house said Friday.
A rare 1939 German race car, expected to command the highest price ever paid for any automobile at auction, will hit the block in Paris in February.
A rare 1939 German race car commissioned by Adolf Hitler is expected to command the highest price ever paid for any automobile at auction, according to Christie's, which will conduct the auction in Paris in February 2007.
Saddam Hussein has been sentenced to hang for crimes against humanity. Defense attorneys said they see little hope of winning an appeal of Sunday's verdict. One of Hussein's lawyers has suggested the death of Hussein will open "the gates of hell" for U.S. soldiers serving in Iraq.
When American history teacher Stephen Conrad taught a one-day lesson on the first anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks, his students wanted to share personal stories. Five years later, he finds the connection is fading.
I don't get it. What's the percentage in keeping the minimum wage at $5.15 an hour? After nine years? This is such an unnecessary and nasty Republican move. Congress has voted seven times to raise its own wages since last the minimum wage budged. Of course, Congress always raises its own salary in the dark of night, hoping no one will notice. But now it does the same with the minimum wage, quietly killing it.
Darn, I missed the Oscars again. I adore gory spectacles. If cockfights were legal I would be there. Even bear-baiting would not be too gruesome for me. Yet somehow I always miss Oscar night.
Contemplate this: A Danish newspaper in September publishes some cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad. Four months later Muslims, mostly Arab, get wind of this event and riot, burning Danish flags and attacking embassies, mostly Danish, but thus far also an Austrian Embassy. Apparently geography is one of the many subjects not studied very attentively in Arab schools. At any rate, as the riots intensify local governments can apparently do nothing. Most of these governments, for instance the Syrian, are famously repressive. Yet in this instance they are impotent against the dirty-necked galoots burning flags and howling in the streets of their cities. Some of the governments issue diplomatic demands to the Danish government.
Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri kept a terrorism "manual" which contained a dedication to Osama bin Laden and suggested a list of potential targets including Big Ben, a court in London has heard.
It's impossible to imagine any movie getting as much advance publicity as Mel Brooks' "The Producers."
We will stay in Iraq, the president and his aides keep saying, until we have achieved victory. But how will we know when that is? What does victory look like these days?
Management genius Peter Drucker, who died on Nov. 11 at age 95, didn't admire "leadership" per se, remarking to FORTUNE, "The three greatest leaders of the 20th century were Hitler, Stalin, and Mao...
In what the White House promoted as "a major speech," President George W. Bush compared the struggle against terrorism to the Cold War, "Islamo-fascism" to communism and the fugitive cave-dweller Osama bin Laden to Adolf Hitler.
"The 75 public e-businesses closest to running out of cash... The farther out a company is from the sun, the more months it should survive." Feb. 5, 2001
After two days of criticism, Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson apologized for his controversial suggestion that the United States should assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
The walls of the Reichstag building -- the seat of the German parliament -- in Berlin have survived wars, fires and political upheaval, although not unscathed.
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A first edition of Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf," signed by the author, has been sold for £23,800 ($43,000).
Berlin has unveiled a memorial to the victims of the Holocaust, ending 17 years of charged debate over how Germany should remember that grim period of its history.
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II has visited the Channel Islands to mark the 60th anniversary of their liberation from Nazi rule at the end of World War II.
We shudder at images from Darfur, Sudan, wince at memories of Rwanda and look at grainy pictures of the Holocaust and say "never again."
London Mayor Ken Livingstone says he will not apologize or express regret for likening a Jewish reporter to a Nazi "concentration camp guard." The following is the full text of his statement:
On a gray day, French high school students are learning about a dark heritage.
It's to be titled the "Al Qaeda Reader." Publisher Doubleday says it will include writings by Osama bin Laden and his second in command, Ayman al-Zawahri, from the 1990s.
Adolf Hitler spent years evading taxes and owed German authorities 405,000 Reichsmarks -- equivalent to $8 million today -- by the time his tax debts were forgiven soon after he took power, a researcher says.
You've heard them all before: The cop who doesn't play by the rules. The holy fool who challenges the beliefs of the country club set. The small-town girl with big-time dreams who invades Poland with a wisecracking robot.
SEVERAL THOUSAND YEARS AGO IN CHINA, or what was destined to be China, there lived a guy named Sun Tzu. Like Niccolò Machiavelli and Walt Rostow and Paul Wolfowitz, he didn't run the world, he just...
He was just supposed to be a mildly funny talking head on basic cable.
Before there was Stephen King, there was Ira Levin.
It began as one of the greatest secrets in history. But by the end of June 6, 1944, the world knew the Normandy invasion was under way, turning the tide in World War II.
In the infancy of a wicked regime, the very first year of Adolf Hitler's dictatorship, the new German chancellor signed a chilling mandate: the law for the prevention of genetically diseased offspring.
Forgive the Republicans if they appear a little flat-footed at the moment. But what political observers witnessed Thursday, and are sure to see more of this weekend, is a Democratic Party, well-primed after a year of trench warfare, that's running circles around the party in power. At least, for now. Here are some examples:
Could it befall Bush? Why a wartime leader's success can be his downfall
First a German Justice Minister (allegedly) compared Bush to Hitler, then Bush proclaimed Senate Dems "not interested in the security of the American people." Meanwhile, Merrill assistant Douglas F...
Are you like me? Does the word "leadership" in a book title make your eyes glaze over and your mind wander toward lunch? James O'Toole means to change that, and in Leadership A to Z: A Guide for th...
Chaplin, Lindbergh, and Sigmund Freud
One man's synergy is another man's mirth. To boost its new auction business, Amazon.com has introduced a feature on its Website that suggests auction items whenever you search for a book, CD, or an...
The kind of greeting card beloved of fat old ladies--cards that start "To a special nephew" and then devolve into a dozen lines of sentiment--are passa. Their industrial kin, however, are hot, hot,...
How's this for bad press? In the past few months, the British newspapers have * documented the following faux pas of Gordon White, 68, bon vivant CEO of Hanson Industries, the $6-billion-a-year U.S...
Sony, which laid down $60 million for a seven-acre parcel of wasteland near where the Berlin Wall used to stand -- and not far from the site of Hitler's bunker -- is unhappy with the city of Berlin...
HE WAS NOT LOOKING for this kind of ''defining moment'' to mark his presidency. But now that war has arrived, future historians are sure to agree on one thing: The world's response to the conflict ...
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We turn now to a fascinating and strangely unanalyzed moment in recent history. It is Wednesday, August 17. President Zia of Pakistan has just died in a plane crash. Senator Quayle of Indiana has b...
Nexis, as ever our guide to ideas in the wind, confirms that a large new question has been laid on the table. It concerns legitimacy. Here we allude not to the marital status of various folks' natu...
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On the day Hitler invaded Poland, 13-year-old Dieter Spethmann, at the request of his father, rode his bicycle around the streets of his hometown of Essen, Germany, to check the mood. He pedaled fo...
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