Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On March 16, 1941 – with European cities ablaze and Jews being herded into ghettos – The New York Times Magazine featured an ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Architectural historian Despina Stratigakos, an award-winning scholar of modern German architecture, is at work on the first in-depth study of the aesthetic and ideological ...

“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 ...

ADOLF Hitler’s birthplace is being turned into a multi-million pound police station complete with its own human rights training centre. But converting the house where the evil Führer was hatched has ...

Braunau am Inn, Austria - Turning the house where Adolf Hitler was born into a police station has raised mixed emotions in his Austrian hometown. "It's a double-edged sword," said Sibylle Treiblmaier, ...

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.