N1104 Historians examining the daily routines of Adolf Hitler have concluded that the Nazi dictator spent the majority of his waking hours engaged in leisure activities, personal obsessions, and lengthy monologues rather than the actual administration of the Third Reich, according to a comprehensive analysis of surviving testimony, memoirs, and archival records that paints a portrait … Read more
Margarete Speer was 41 years old when the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg sentenced her husband to 20 years in Spandau Prison, and she was 61 when the gates finally opened on the night of October 1, 1966. In the two decades between those two moments, she raised six children almost entirely alone, defended a … Read more
The Dutch resistance fighter who gunned down Nazi collaborators in the streets of The Hague while maintaining the cover of a respected neurologist has been posthumously honored as one of the most daring underground operatives of the Second World War, according to historical records released on the anniversary of his death. Dr. Gerrit Willem Kastein, … Read more
BUENOS AIRES — Within months of Adolf Eichmann’s execution in Israel, three of his four sons were building bombs and plotting attacks on Jewish schoolchildren in Argentina, according to police records and court testimony that reveal how the architect of the Holocaust’s ideology survived him. The revelation, buried for decades in Argentine police files and … Read more
Historians and researchers are confronting a deeply unsettling portrait of Heinrich Himmler, the Reichsführer SS, whose meticulously documented daily routines reveal how the Holocaust was organized not through theatrical rage but through calm, relentless administration. New analysis of surviving diaries, appointment books, phone logs, and personal correspondence shows that the man who built the SS … Read more
When the guns fell silent across Europe on May 8, 1945, the surrender of Nazi Germany left behind not only a shattered continent and millions of displaced people but also one of the most formidable collections of armored hardware ever assembled in the history of warfare, a vast and scattered fleet of Panthers, Tigers, Panzer … Read more
When the guns fell silent across Europe on May 8, 1945, the surrender of Nazi Germany left behind not only a shattered continent and millions of displaced people but also one of the most formidable collections of armored hardware ever assembled in the history of warfare, a vast and scattered fleet of Panthers, Tigers, Panzer … Read more
The family of Auschwitz “Angel of Death” Josef Mengele built a clandestine support network that funneled money, forged identities and protected the world’s most wanted Nazi for more than three decades after World War II — and never faced a single day in court for it, according to a detailed account of the family’s postwar … Read more
A single hospital room in Heidelberg, Germany, in December 1945 held the collision of three separate calculations about what would happen to an American icon’s life, legacy, and secrets — and none of the three authorities who made those calculations predicted who would ultimately do the controlling, how aggressively she would do it, or how … Read more
A single hospital room in Heidelberg, Germany, in December 1945 held the collision of three separate calculations about what would happen to an American icon’s life, legacy, and secrets — and none of the three authorities who made those calculations predicted who would ultimately do the controlling, how aggressively she would do it, or how … Read more