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In January 1945, at a frozen crossroads outside Houffalize, Belgium, heavy snow blanketed the pine trees and the bodies of the dead. A group of German soldiers stood in the middle of the road with their hands raised, having surrendered after a bitter hour-long firefight in the blinding white storm. American infantrymen moved down the … Read more

In September 1938, Adolf Hitler threatened to unleash a European war unless the Sudetenland, a border area of Czechoslovakia inhabited by ethnic Germans, was ceded to Germany. The leaders of Britain, France, Italy, and Germany met in Munich on September 29 and 30, 1938, and agreed to the German annexation of the Sudetenland in exchange … Read more

When Allied soldiers began liberating the concentration camps set up across Germany, they encountered scenes that would haunt them for the rest of their lives. Thousands upon thousands of corpses lay exposed, clouds of flies hovering over them, and the nauseating smell of rotting bodies filled the air. Survivors who looked like living skeletons stood … Read more

Amon Göth was one of the most brutal and grotesque figures of the Holocaust. He served as commandant of the Krakow-Plaszow concentration camp and was later featured in the film Schindler's List for his sadistic running of the camp. He was a man who took great pleasure in killing innocent people. Göth joined the Nazi … Read more

In September 1938, Adolf Hitler threatened to unleash a European war unless the Sudetenland, a border area of Czechoslovakia inhabited by ethnic Germans, was ceded to Germany. Between September 29 and 30, 1938, the leaders of Britain, France, Italy, and Germany met in Munich and agreed to the German annexation of the Sudetenland in exchange … Read more