The modern dictator’s handbook
A book by Frank Dikötter analyzes the common traits of 20th century despots
A Spanish Civil War grave under a school in downtown Madrid
The Miguel de Unamuno high school, next to the old Yeserías prison, was turned into a concentration camp for Republican prisoners after the conflict. To date, no excavations have been permitted
‘Ordinary Men’: the Nazi horror through the eyes of the perpetrators
The meticulously crafted Netflix documentary poignantly recounts one of the darkest chapters in recent human history
First train to Auschwitz: Newly discovered photographs believed to show earliest Polish deportation
A collector has donated a series of images showing the arrival of a convoy of prisoners that inaugurated transfers to the concentration camp in June 1940