The Irish times report: Three years after the second World War ended, almost half of Americans believed Adolf Hitler was alive and well and living in South America. So Michael Angelo Musmanno, a naval captain and US judge who had presided at several of the Nuremberg trials, was ordered to film testimony from the survivors of Hitler’s inner circle. His 1948 interviews formed the basis [...]
A century ago, one section of Vienna played host to Adolf Hitler, Leon Trotsky, Joseph Tito, Sigmund Freud and Joseph Stalin. In January 1913, a man whose passport bore the name Stavros Papadopoulos disembarked from the Krakow train at Vienna’s North Terminal station. Of dark complexion, he sported a large peasant’s moustache and carried a very basic wooden suitcase. “I [...]
The copyright for Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” is currently held by the German state of Bavaria. Printing the book remains forbidden. But one political party is wondering: what happens when the copyright expires in 2015? For German parliamentarian Burkhard Lischka, it’s a no-brainer. The member of Germany’s opposition Social Democratic Party (SPD) would find it an insult to victims of [...]
A previously unknown postcard sent by Adolf Hitler when he was a soldier in World War I has been uncovered in a European history project. Hitler’s postcard, sent in 1916 when he was recovering from a war wound, was found in Munich, Germany. Oxford University is providing expert advice to the Europeana 1914-1918 project which runs history roadshows. When the [...]
Adolf Hitler took a primitive form of Viagra when he tried to have sex with Eva Braun, a book on the Fuhrer’s fragile health has claimed. Based on long-dormant medical archives and formerly classified military documents, it claimed the dictator was so afraid of pills that most of his medication was injected. The authors of the book, titled Was Hitler [...]
A British double agent offered to assassinate Hitler in a suicide bombing mission, newly-released archives reveal — but MI5 turned him down. World War II suicide attacks are normally associated with Japanese kamikaze pilots. But newly-released wartime archives reveal that the British also had a potential suicide bomber among their ranks — and his chosen target was Hitler. British double [...]
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From Surviving History, an excellent history blog: He was small, plump-cheeked and going bald – a lawyer who had long defended the underdogs of society. Now, in May 1931, Hans Litten was taking on the most formidable foe in his entire career. In the dock before him stood Adolf Hitler, who was accused of waging a systematic and brutal warfare [...]
Der Spiegel reports: Historian Othmar Plöckinger argues that Adolf Hilter’s time in the military facilitated his transformation into a murderous dictator. His new book traces how in the army Hilter acquired skills and an education that he would put to use during his later rise to power. What does a soldier do after his country has lost a war and [...]
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Giles Milton – Surviving History kindly allowed us to use his latest post: The news could scarcely have been bleaker for Hitler and his inner circle. The Soviet army was within a few hundred yards of the fuhrer’s famous Berlin bunker and its capture was only a matter of time. The nearby Schlsischer railway station had already been seized. The Tiergarten [...]
The telegraph reports: The Nazis hatched plans for a “Fourth Reich” by planting sleeper cells in post-war Europe to destabilise governments, secret MI5 files show. The interrogation of a French collaborator revealed he had attended a conference near Munich in mid-April 1945, a few weeks before the end of the Second World War, presided over by an SS officer in [...]
Churchill and Stalin made ‘merry’ until early hoursMay 23, 2013
Reluctant hero’ of Warsaw Ghetto uprising dies at 93: Tributes paid to one of final survivors who took on Nazis in 1943May 23, 2013
Hell’s Angels Veteran flys againMay 23, 2013
Huntington State Office Building Will Be Renamed for Rosie the RivetersMay 22, 2013
‘I never knew people could love an old man so much’: WWII vet, 91, ‘saved from daughter’s eviction’ after $138,000 raised onlineMay 22, 2013
Bomber Command veterans boycotting ‘insulting’ awardMay 22, 2013
Countdown to raising the Dornier commencesMay 22, 2013
When wartime appearances were deceiving by designMay 22, 2013
American fighter still hidden under North Wales beachMay 22, 2013
What to Bring to a War: A Packing List for WWII Army NursesMay 22, 2013
Drunkenness, jeep accidents, sexual assault – The Dark Side of LiberationMay 22, 2013
Dame Judi Dench launches £1.5m campaign for maintenance of Bomber Command MemorialMay 22, 2013
Obituaries Brigadier-General Zdenek Skarvada: Spitfire pilot who later underwent forced labourMay 22, 2013
Russia to Scrap World’s Biggest Nuclear SubsMay 22, 2013
Raising a World War II Bomber From the English ChannelMay 22, 2013
New Interactive Timeline and Map Allows You to Explore the History of World War IMay 22, 2013
87 shipwrecks, most from WWII, could leak oil near US, but no ‘ticking time bombs’May 22, 2013
Cold War cartography: Mapping where Soviets could – and could not – go in 1950′s AmericaMay 21, 2013
New monument honors ‘overlooked’ WWII aviators killed in training at Columbia baseMay 21, 2013
P-38 Lightning Crash Site at Siar IslandMay 21, 2013
