The salute was first used during the French Revolution by The National Assembly, who were inspired by a Roman painting. “The ...

Mussolini had also spoken against Nazi racism and anti-Semitism ... huge power and “influence” over the national life of those countries. In March 1933 Joseph Goebbels, newly appointed Reich Minister ...

Another historical fiction recommendation is the new book from the Nobel literature prize-winning South Korean author Han ...

Out of necessity, then, the National Socialists had to derive most of their financing via membership fees, storm troopers ...

The case raises a Constitutional question about the power of a president to impound funds that were authorized by Congress, ...

A lustrous scion of fin-de-siècle Vienna, she was born Alma Maria Schindler, the daughter of the operetta singer Anna Bergen ...

Joseph Menn joined The Post in 2022 after two decades covering technology for Reuters, the Financial Times and the Los Angeles Times. His books include "Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original ...

As a historian who has studied and taught courses on Italian fascism, I have spent many hours watching footage and listening to the speeches of dictator Benito Mussolini, who ruled over the ...

Those disturbing figures make the historical drama Mussolini: Son Of The Century both timely and ominous. Made in Italian with subtitles, the eight-part, highly stylised serial traces the rise ...