The Austrian-born Nazi leader and key protagonist in World War II, in which he turned his anti-Semitic views, first espoused in Mein Kampf, into a continent-wide genocide of the Jewish people. Vivek ...

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(This is the second part of a three-part series. Read the third part.) So complicated is the German Führer’s Austrian genealogy that it was finally charted in a Nazi exhibition, aptly entitled “The ...