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Ilse Koch, the notorious Nazi concentration camp warden whose atrocities at Buchenwald became synonymous with the darkest depths of human cruelty, ended her own life in a Bavarian prison cell on September 1, 1967, hanging herself with bedsheets in an apparent final act of a woman who never expressed remorse for the horrors she inflicted … Read more

HAMMELBURG, Bavaria — Gen. George S. Patton Jr. forced a German camp commandant to eat the same starvation rations he had imposed on 300 American prisoners, in a dramatic confrontation that stunned liberated POWs and raised immediate questions about the limits of battlefield justice in the final weeks of World War II in Europe. The … Read more

A twenty-year-old Army nurse stepped out of a field hospital treatment room, looked past a full colonel who had just reached for the door handle, and told him to wait because a wounded private had been sitting on the corridor bench fifteen minutes longer than he had. What neither she nor the colonel knew, according … Read more

A twenty-year-old Army nurse stepped out of a field hospital treatment room, looked past a full colonel who had just reached for the door handle, and told him to wait because a wounded private had been sitting on the corridor bench fifteen minutes longer than he had. What neither she nor the colonel knew, according … Read more

A twenty-year-old Army nurse stepped out of a field hospital treatment room, looked past a full colonel who had just reached for the door handle, and told him to wait because a wounded private had been sitting on the corridor bench fifteen minutes longer than he had. What neither she nor the colonel knew, according … Read more

A U. S. Army checkpoint near Houffalize, Belgium, stopped a captain in an American uniform on the morning of December 17, 1944, and the only thing that gave him away was a windshield wiper mounted on the wrong side of his Jeep. The man was not an American officer. He was SS Hauptsturmführer Klaus Dieter … Read more