On March 16, 1941 – with European cities ablaze and Jews being herded into ghettos – The New York Times Magazine featured an illustrated story on Adolf Hitler’s retreat in the Berchtesgaden Alps.

Some of the most iconic photos of Adolf Hitler show him at his most intense, eyes alight with frenetic energy as he addresses an audience or salutes a crowd. Equally haunting, however, is another set ...

“I am investigating the many ways in which Hitler’s domestic spaces were packaged to sell the Third Reich to the German people and international audiences.” Architectural historian Despina Stratigakos ...

To write a new book about someone as notorious as Adolf Hitler, the author needs a good angle. When Despina Stratigakos came across a bill for Hitler's drapes, she knew she was onto something. Soon ...

But Stratigakos said Hitler's homes were built for the opposite effect. They were intended to humanize the dictator by revealing his "private life" – or rather, an "ideological construction" of it.