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GÜNZBURG, Germany — For three decades, the world’s most hunted man drew breath because of a secret ledger kept by a Bavarian farm machinery empire, a web of couriers, and a legal loophole that made his family untouchable. The Mangala family did not just know where Josef Mengele was hiding; they funded his exile, orchestrated … Read more

Der einstige Reichsmarschall, gefeierter Jagdflieger des Ersten Weltkriegs und über Jahre hinweg der zweitmächtigste Mann im nationalsozialistischen Deutschland, hegte gegenüber seinem Führer ein Verhältnis, das von tiefer Ambivalenz, eiskaltem Kalkül und letztlich vernichtender Verachtung geprägt war. Das belegen nun erstmals detaillierte Auswertungen von persönlichen Notizen, ärztlichen Gesprächsprotokollen der Nürnberger Prozesse und Zeugenaussagen von Weggefährten, die … Read more

NUREMBERG, Germany – In the cold, dim hours before his scheduled execution, Hermann Göring, the most powerful man captured from the shattered Nazi regime, cheated the gallows with a bite of cyanide, leaving behind a corpse, a taunting letter, and an enigma that has haunted historians for nearly eight decades. The Reichsmarschall, a man once … Read more

LONDON — The woman who spent three years driving Dwight D. Eisenhower across a continent at war finally broke her silence in the most calculated way possible: she waited until the day he could no longer answer. Kathleen “Kay” Summersby died on January 27, 1975, still carrying the secret that had followed her for three … Read more

VERSAILLES, France — The most patient man in the Allied high command has finally run out of patience. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander, drafted a formal ultimatum this afternoon in his requisitioned headquarters outside Paris, demanding that Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery cease his repeated challenges to the coalition’s command structure. According to sources with … Read more