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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

The woman known as the Hyena of Auschwitz went to the gallows at Hamelin Prison on December 13, 1945, but the most haunting chapter of the Irma Grese story is not her execution. It is the complete and permanent disappearance of every member of her family from the historical record, a vanishing so total that … Read more

The woman known as the Hyena of Auschwitz went to the gallows at Hamelin Prison on December 13, 1945, but the most haunting chapter of the Irma Grese story is not her execution. It is the complete and permanent disappearance of every member of her family from the historical record, a vanishing so total that … Read more

The widow of one of Nazi Germany’s most senior military commanders spent the final two decades of her life fighting to overturn the verdict that sent her husband to the gallows at Nuremberg, a campaign that would ultimately succeed in a German court before being reversed half a century later. Louise von Bender, wife of … Read more

The families of Adolf Hitler’s most senior surviving lieutenants spent the two decades after Germany’s surrender trapped between private devotion and public condemnation, waiting for men whose crimes were measured in millions of lives while their own lives were measured out in prison visits, ration cards, and silence. Albert Speer, the architect of the Third … Read more

Fritz Sauckel, the Nazi official who organized the forced deportation of some five million workers to German factories during World War II, was hanged at Nuremberg prison in the early hours of October 16, 1946, but the ordeal of his wife and surviving children was only beginning. The man chief prosecutor Robert Jackson called the … Read more