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.

We can’t have a functioning democracy if we think our opponents are evil.

Although the League of Nations and other international meetings had used simultaneous interpretation prior to the trials at Nuremberg, its successful use there in 1945 gave the method new importance.

Each September, the Nazis held the Nuremberg Rally, a spectacle of party loyalty and power. By 1938 over one million people gathered for a weeklong celebration of Nazism. Leni Riefenstahl filmed ...