Nazi concentration camp bosses who claimed they were just ‘following orders’ truly believed and took pride in what they were doing, researchers have claimed. Landmark studies on human behaviour in the 1960s and 1970s had founded the theory that people carried out evil act because they naturally follow orders from figures of authority. And Nazi war criminals famously tried the [...]
How did you spend your teen years? Playing sports or video games? In Europe during WW II thousands of Jewish teens were involved in the war – – not playing war, but actually helping to fight it by sabotaging German army supply lines. To say they have a story to tell would be an understatement, as the excerpt below from [...]
A lot of people treat Adolf Hitler as if he was a military genius who was only done in by his own visions of unattainable excess. This is incorrect. He was actually a complete idiot who was done in by his own visions of unattainable excess. Why? Well: 10. He Cancelled the Worlds’ First Assault Rifle When the Germans invaded [...]
WILHELM Brasse, who as a prisoner at Auschwitz was forced to photograph the experiments of doctor Josef Mengele, has died aged 95. Brasse’s work at the concentration camp also included taking photographs of his fellow inmates for identity cards, resulting in a collection of 39,000 images that survived the war. He died in Zywiec, southern Poland, Auschwitz-Birkenau museum spokesman Pawel [...]
Forensic crews scraping away dirt from the remains of the Nazi-era psychiatric patients were puzzled: The skeletal fingers were entwined in rosary beads. Why, the experts wondered, would the Nazis – who considered these people less than human – respect them enough to let them take their religious symbols to their graves? It turns out they didn’t. A year after [...]
When Israeli archaeologist Yoram Haimi decided to investigate his family’s unknown Holocaust history, he turned to the skill he knew best: He began to dig.After learning that two of his uncles were murdered in the infamous Sobibor death camp, he embarked on a landmark excavation project that is shining new light on the workings of one of the most notorious [...]
GERMANY has launched a war crimes investigation against an 87-year-old Philadelphia man it accuses of serving as an SS guard at the Auschwitz death camp, The Associated Press has learned, following years of failed US Justice Department efforts to have the man stripped of his American citizenship and deported. Johann “Hans” Breyer, a retired toolmaker, admits he was a guard [...]
The wartime photographs were taken by members of the German SS in 1944 and appear in The Auschwitz Album (or Lili Jacob Album), which contains nearly 200 photographs showing the arrival of a transport of Hungarian Jews at the Birkenau camp. The pictures document each stage of processing – from departure from the train and the march to the gas [...]
THE world’s most wanted Nazi is set to spend the rest of his life behind bars — in the city he terrorised during World War II. Evil Laszlo Csatary — who sent 15,700 Jews to their deaths in Auschwitz — was arrested in Hungary after The Sun revealed he was secretly living in Budapest. Now Slovakia wants 97-year-old Csatary to [...]
A plan to build a modern-day crematorium next to the gas chambers and ovens of a leading Nazi death camp in WW2 has sparked a storm of protest from Jewish organisations around the world. Authorities in Lublin in eastern Poland want to construct the crematorium near to the Majdanek camp where 80,000 people were put to death. The camp was [...]
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