“This story was originally published on October 25, by the Forward. Sign up here to get the latest stories from the Forward delivered to you each morning.” Albert Speer, the Nazi architect who built a Cathedral of Light for Hitler and...

Contrary to what one might expect, the central question raised by the all-over-the-map documentary “The Meaning of Hitler” is not “Can Hitler happen here, and now?” That was an interesting premise for academic debate in 1966. Not today. The...