Is there a difference between the Hitler salute and the Roman salute? Danny Bird explores the story of an instantly ...

Compared to the others in Hitler’s inner circle, Speer was something of a late arrival. Many of his rivals had been by the Führer’s side since the early 1920s, while Speer would only join the ...

During the Nazi Germany era, he became one of the most sought-after sculptors, producing busts of prominent figures Wilhelm Frick, Erich Ludendorff, and Adolf Hitler. The artist’s association with the ...

artist, age 24—who had fled the Hapsburg realm in May 1913 to avoid military service. Germany and Austria-Hungary had an agreement to repatriate draft dodgers, so Hitler (as he chose to spell ...

Prior to World War One, in which he fought, Hitler worked in Vienna as a casual labourer and an artist, drawing postcards and paintings. He was twice rejected from the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts.

In 1932, sculptor Hedwig Maria Ley, a Nazi sympathizer, created the first authorized depiction of soon-to-be German dictator ...