The fascist dictator built a ballroom in the garden of the Reich Chancellery in Berlin — beneath it was his first bunker.

The rule of the Third Reich was coming to its spectacular and violent finale. A demented, wild-eyed Hitler hid in his bunker ...

The streets of Berlin were devastated beyond recognition in some areas as 33-year-old photographer William Vandivert was led to the location of the former German chancellery buildings. Just days ...

In 2017, she published her memoir on her time in the bunker as the Red Army advanced in 1945. Ruf died at 94, the Berliner Zeitung reported, citing confirmation from her publisher. A woman thought to ...

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Adolf Hitler was appointed Reich chancellor on 30 January 1933. Once they had seized power in Germany, the Nazis did not relinquish it until their demise on 8 May 1945. The Third Reich lasted for 12 ...

This first appeared in the Planet Money newsletter. You can sign up here. BERLIN — On a Wednesday afternoon in late August, I traveled to a tourist attraction in the heart of Germany's capital. If I ...

Bismarck was neither the creator of German unity nor the founder of the German Reich, but it was he who re-established both. It is crucially important to acknowledge this political as well as ...