N1104 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
Nearly one million men who wore the runic collar tabs of the Waffen SS scattered across a shattered Europe in May 1945, and the vast majority of them never faced a firing squad, a courtroom, or even a prison cell for the atrocities their organization committed. New historical analysis of the post-war fates of Adolf … Read more
Nearly one million men who wore the runic collar tabs of the Waffen SS scattered across a shattered Europe in May 1945, and the vast majority of them never faced a firing squad, a courtroom, or even a prison cell for the atrocities their organization committed. New historical analysis of the post-war fates of Adolf … Read more
SMS:et kom en grå eftermiddag i början av december medan jag gick igenom kvartalsrapporterna vid mitt skrivbord. ”Kan vi prata? Det är viktigt. Kaffe imorgon? ” Avsändaren var Rebecca, min yngre syster med tre år. Vi hade knappt pratat sedan thanksgiving, när hon tillkännagav sin förlovning med Derek, en personlig tränare som hon hade dejtat … Read more
Hanna Reitsch, the most decorated female aviator in German history, personally proposed a suicide pilot program to Adolf Hitler in 1944 and spent the final months of World War II flying into a collapsing Berlin to remain at the Führer’s side, according to a comprehensive review of her wartime record and postwar testimony that raises … Read more
Mejlet kom klockan 23. 47 på tisdagen medan jag granskade kontrakt för ett kundförvärv på mitt kontor på Manhattan. Avsändaren var okänd, men ämnesraden fick mig att frysa till: ”Grattis till att du har lagt ut din fastighet i Hamptons. ” Jag hade ingen annons. Jag hade inte kontaktat några mäklare. Men bifogat i mejlet … Read more
Walter Schellenberg, the SS intelligence chief who rose from law student to head of Nazi Germany’s foreign espionage apparatus and then attempted to negotiate a separate peace with the Western Allies as the Third Reich collapsed, died of cancer on March 31, 1952, in Turin, Italy, at the age of 42, leaving behind a legacy … Read more
The wives of the most notorious figures of the Third Reich largely escaped the gallows and the prison cells that claimed their husbands, slipping instead into postwar obscurity, protracted legal battles, and in several cases, comfortable pensions funded by the very state their spouses had sought to destroy. While the Nuremberg trials delivered justice to … Read more
The death of General George S. Patton Jr. , the most celebrated American combat commander of World War II, remains one of the most scrutinized and controversial episodes in modern military history, with questions persisting more than seven decades after he succumbed to injuries sustained in a low-speed automobile collision in occupied Germany. Patton, a … Read more
The death of General George S. Patton Jr. , the most celebrated American combat commander of World War II, remains one of the most scrutinized and controversial episodes in modern military history, with questions persisting more than seven decades after he succumbed to injuries sustained in a low-speed automobile collision in occupied Germany. Patton, a … Read more