N1104 On June 3, 1944, Salzburg hosted a wedding unlike any other in the fifth year of the Second World War. Across Europe, millions had already perished, and the Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe was only days away. Adolf Hitler presided over the ceremony at Mirabell Palace before moving the celebration to the Eagle's Nest high … Read more
High in the Bavarian Alps, Adolf Hitler's mountain retreat at Obersalzberg became the informal center of power in Nazi Germany. Party leaders, ministers, generals, and foreign visitors passed through its doors. Among the men with constant access to Hitler was Martin Bormann, the ambitious party official who steadily became one of the most powerful figures … Read more
The Battle of Stalingrad ended on February 2, 1943, when the German Sixth Army capitulated after five months of fierce fighting and heavy casualties. Exhausted of ammunition and food, it became the first of Hitler's field armies to surrender during World War II. The battle proved a decisive psychological turning point, ending a string of … Read more
On April 15, 1945, southwest of Bergen in Nazi Germany, the British 11th Armoured Division liberated Bergen-Belsen, one of the worst Nazi concentration camps. The camp embodied the true brutality of the regime and its extermination system. British troops found 13,000 unburied bodies and nearly 60,000 sick and starving prisoners. Thousands more would die in … Read more
Le dîner de la fête des mères avait commencé comme tous les autres, avec des effusions trop bruyantes et des regards qui se posaient sur moi un peu trop longtemps. J’aurais dû le savoir dès l’instant où j’ai franchi leur porte, ma tarte achetée dans une pâtisserie tenant lieu d’offrande de paix. Je n’avais pas … Read more
The Allied landings in Normandy on June 6, 1944, marked a turning point in World War II and the beginning of the end of the war in Europe. The following month, in July 1944, Soviet forces liberated Majdanek, the first major Nazi camp in German-occupied Poland to be uncovered. Only after the liberation of the … Read more
Mitt namn är Kendra Ellis. Jag är trettiotvå år gammal och min familj lurade mig på ett hemligt andrabolån i mitt namn som nästan förstörde min kreditvärdighet och allt jag hade byggt upp. Innan jag berättar om söndagsmiddagen där min syster hånade mig för att jag inte ägde ett hus när jag i själva verket … Read more
On September 15, 1935, the Nazi regime announced the Nuremberg Laws in Germany. These laws banned future marriages and sexual relations between Jews and people of German-related blood. The Nazis believed such relationships were dangerous because they led to mixed-race children. According to the regime, these children and their descendants undermined the purity of the … Read more
Morgonljuset reflekterades mot den upplysta fasaden av Harrison Industris huvudkontor när min bil svängde in på infarten. Där stod den, byggnaden som hade format min barndom och sedan förkastat mig. Åtta år hade gått sedan jag stod där som den förvisade dottern, utkastad utan någonting annat än min rättvisa ilska och en orubblig beslutsamhet. På … Read more
Wilhelm Hosenfeld was a German army officer whose name became linked to one of the most famous rescue stories of World War II. Stationed in Warsaw during the German occupation of Poland, he used his position to help persecuted Poles and Jews, including the pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman. Hosenfeld was born on May 2, 1895, in … Read more