Auschwitz museum begins emotional work of conserving 8,000 shoes of murdered children
Museum workers describe the children’s shoes as one of the most emotional testaments of the crimes carried out at Auschwitz
Nueva Germania, the Aryan utopia of Nietzsche’s sister and Bernhard Förster in Paraguay
Founded in 1887 in the middle of the Paraguyan wilderness, this town of 6,000 inhabitants is today a reminder of the failure of an anti-Semitic racial experiment
Moscow ramps up security as Putin presides over low-key Victory Day parade
Russia has canceled the annual reception for World War II veterans and the citizens’ march amid heightened tension in the Kremlin after an alleged drone attack
The road to the Holocaust: Racism as an integral part of European culture
George L. Mosse’s book ‘Toward the Final Solution’ explains the cultural foundations that enabled anti-Semitism and facilitated Nazi mass murder
Ben Ferencz, last living Nuremberg prosecutor of Nazi war crimes, dies aged 103
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At the age of 27, with no previous trial experience, Ferencz became chief prosecutor in 1947 for a case in which 22 former Third Reich commanders were charged with genocide
Rudolf-Christoph von Gersdorff: The Nazi official who tried to kill Hitler 80 years ago
His was only one of several attempts made by German army officials, and he was one of the few conspirators that survived the war
Gods, tombs and Nazis: the Third Reich’s bad relationship with Egyptology
Anti-Semitism and the Hitler regime’s obsession with the past of the Aryan peoples put the brakes on the study of the ancient Pharaonic civilization in Germany, despite what is shown in ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’
The Hitler diaries: a modern Robin Hood tale or revisionism of Nazi crimes?
Four decades after the biggest fake news scandal in history, the full contents of the forged tomes, which paint the Führer as a sympathetic statesman ignorant of the Holocaust, have been made public
First Nazi bomber to be shot down at night discovered on Spanish Civil War front in Madrid
Republican Soviet fighters shot down a Condor Legion Junkers during the Battle of Brunete but the location of the wreckage remained a mystery for 85 years
The World War II battle where German and US soldiers joined forces against the Waffen-SS
With Hitler dead and the Nazi surrender two days away, a ragtag unit of Wehrmacht and GIs banded together to defend illustrious French prisoners at the Battle for Castle Itter
Philosopher José Antonio Marina: ‘The fact that happiness has become fashionable is catastrophic’
In his new book, the writer gives an overview of history from the point of view of the desires and emotions that drive it
Twitter suspends Kanye West for ‘incitement to violence’
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The rapper had published an image of a Nazi Swastika merged with the Star of David and praised Hitler on ‘Infowars’
‘Shakespeare is the best liar’: New book tells tales of history’s greatest tricksters
The volume presents a compilation of the most prominent deceptions in the annals of humanity – and the people behind them
Could a 1933 novel about Nazism provide a cautionary tale about totalitarianism in 2022?
‘The Oppermann Brothers’, Lion Feuchtwanger’s seminal book about the German Reich, has been republished in the US to great acclaim
The mass suicides by ordinary citizens in the last days of Nazi Germany
Historian Florian Huber’s book examines how civilians took their own lives in greater numbers than military and government officials as the Third Reich collapsed