Telegraph: British military chiefs thought Hitler was more use alive than dead in the later stages of the Second World War because of the “blunders” he was making. The view emerged as the Government discussed bombing a rumoured hiding place of the Nazi leader two weeks after the launch of the D-Day landings. MI6 had also been asked to draw [...]
“Following a brief surge of popularity in Western culture, the swastika from the 1930s became strongly associated with its iconic usage by Nazi Germany, and it has hence become stigmatized and to some extent taboo in the Western world; it has notably been outlawed in Germany if used as a symbol of Nazism.” From our chums over at: www.retronaut.com
Remarkable interviews with the circle of confidantes who surrounded Adolf Hitler in the days before his suicide have been shown for the first time on German television.In testimony from beyond the grave, the group of aides, secretaries and friends described life in the squalid bunker retreat beneath the Reich Chancellery in Berlin as Russian troops moved in. They revealed intimate [...]
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 [...]
Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist, the last surviving participant in the main plot to kill Adolf Hitler, has died aged 90. Von Kleist, who once volunteered to wear a suicide vest to assassinate the Nazi dictator, died at his home in Munich on Friday, said his wife, Gundula. Von Kleist was born on 10 July 1922, on his family estate Schmenzin in [...]
Captain Hans-Heinz Lindner was gradually losing his nerve. As dawn broke on June 13, 1942, the first cars were already driving along the waterfront in the village of Amagansett, Long Island. But the U-202 was stuck. The gray steel colossus lay perched on a sand bank in shallow water less than 200 meters (656 feet) from the shore, as helpless [...]
They were feasts of sublime asparagus – laced with fear. And for more than half a century, Margot Woelk kept her secret hidden from the world, even from her husband. Then, a few months after her 95th birthday, she revealed the truth about her wartime role: Adolf Hitler’s food taster. Woelk, then in her mid-twenties, spent two and a half [...]
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 [...]
Each meal could have been her last, but Adolf Hitler’s food taster Margot Wölk lived to tell her story. Forced to test the Nazi leader’s meals for more than two years, the 95-year-old tells SPIEGEL ONLINE that she lived in constant fear. It might have been something as simple as a portion of white asparagus. Peeled, steamed and served with [...]
No conflict in recorded history transformed the globe as thoroughly as World War II. Cities were obliterated; national borders altered; revolutionary and, in some cases, fearsome military, medical, communication and transportation technology invented; and , of course, tens of millions were killed — the majority of them civilians. Simply put, the world of August 1945, when the war ended, bore [...]
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