Topic - Adolf Hitler

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  BOOK REVIEW: 'Journey to the Abyss'

  Harry Kessler began his diary, now a classic of German literature, in June 1880. He had just turned 12 and for the next nearly 60 years, until his death in 1937, he kept at it, turning it into a work of several volumes. The diaries have been best-sellers in Germany for many years, unusual for a book of epic proportions.

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  Groups demand new probe into Marine photo

  A leading Jewish organization and others outraged by a photo showing Marine snipers in Afghanistan posing with a logo resembling a notorious Nazi symbol are demanding President Obama order an investigation and hold the troops accountable.

• Naomi Watts to star in Princess Diana biopic

  Producers say Naomi Watts will play Princess Diana in a film about the last years of the royal's life.

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  BOOK REVIEW: 'Hedy's Folly'

  As you pick up a copy of "Hedy's Folly," with its eye-popping jacket of an incandescent Hedy Lamarr seductively wrapped around a gilded torpedo, you begin to wonder just what exactly you are getting into. The subtitle, "The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of the Most Beautiful Woman in the World," gives you a clue.

• Hitler flatware to be included in NYC exhibition

  An upcoming New York City exhibition featuring four centuries of sterling silver includes two pieces of flatware that belonged to Adolf Hitler.

• Germany: Plan to publish Mein Kampf excerpt halted

  A British publisher says he's putting on hold plans to print excerpts of Adolf Hitler's infamous memoir "Mein Kampf" in Germany under the threat of legal action from the state of Bavaria.

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  BOOK REVIEW: 'Lisbon'

  As this vivid account of the key role the Portuguese capital played during World War II tells us, when the traditional European "City of Light" - Paris - lay extinguished under the dark cloud of Nazi occupation, Lisbon's lights burned bright. When, one after another, most of Europe's lamps went out, as they had a generation earlier in another world war, to be replaced by somber blackout, Lisbon's bright street lighting and neon signs struck visitors as surreal.

• Bavaria questions Mein Kampf publication plans

  Bavarian authorities say they are looking at legal measures to prevent a British publisher's plans to reproduce excerpts from Adolf Hitler's infamous memoir "Mein Kampf" in Germany.

• German state questions Mein Kampf publication plan

  A state government in Germany is looking at legal measures to prevent a British publisher's plans to reproduce excerpts from Adolf Hitler's infamous memoir "Mein Kampf" in Germany.

• Inside China

  The late Chinese scientist and defector Qian Xuesen won lavish praise from Chinese Communist Party leaders in early December on 100th anniversary of his birth.

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  HANSON: The new old Europe

  Nearly 10 years ago, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld provoked outrage by referring to "old Europe." How dare he, snapped the French and Germans, call us "old" when the utopian European Union was all the rage, the new euro was soaring in value, and the United States was increasingly isolated under the George W. Bush administration!

• Entertainer Heesters dies at age 108

  The agent for Dutch-born entertainer Johannes Heesters says the artist died on Christmas Eve. He was 108.

• Dutch-born entertainer Heesters dies at age 108

  Dutch-born entertainer Johannes Heesters, who made his name performing in Adolf Hitler's Germany and was dogged later in his long career by controversy over his Nazi-era past, died Saturday, his agent said. He was 108.

• Inside Politics

  Sen. John McCain says the world is better off now that North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has died, and predicted the dictator would join the likes of Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin "in a warm corner in hell."

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  BOOK REVIEW: 'Scorpions for Breakfast'

  If a title like "Scorpions for Breakfast" doesn't suggest anything particular about the author's persona and purposes, well, let me merely recommend a second cup of coffee.

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