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.

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 ...

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 ...

Some of the most iconic photos of Adolf Hitler show him at his most intense, eyes alight with frenetic energy as he addresses an audience or salutes a crowd. Equally haunting, however, is another set ...

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.