This Week in History

Bernard Taper’s account of his 1950 visit with the imprisoned photographer Heinrich Hoffman, who took thousands of pictures of his friend Adolf Hitler during the Third Reich. “Hitler was not an easy person to photograph,” Hoffmann said.

Part 6 of S. N. Behrman’s Profile of the legendary art dealer Joseph Duveen, whose clients included J. P. Morgan, Henry Clay Frick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and others.

Xavier Rynne on the Pope’s 1968 encyclical on birth control.

Kenneth Tynan on the comedian, writer, and filmmaker Mel Brooks; the form he found in the comic impromptu duologue; and the belated blossoming of an enormous career.

The narrator, a married Japanese writer, meets a woman at a friends wedding in Tokyo, and proceeds to tell the story of their bizarre relationship. …