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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.