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WWII Genocide Against Roma Remembered

Ian Harvey

Serbian Minister of Health Slavica Đukić-Dejanović insisted that the genocide was one of the most tragic episodes for the Roma people during the Second World…

Hitler, the Ghent Altarpiece and the Holy Grail

April 10, 1934 – the night in which one of the 12 panels of Jan van Eyck’s famous Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, more commonly known as…

Long-lost diary of top Nazi Alfred Rosenberg finally recovered and turned over to Holocaust museum

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Alfred Rosenberg was a Nazi before Adolf Hitler became one. He later on served as the Nazi’s interim leader. He is also a known author…

Compromising History Documents Turn Out To Be Fake

Ian Harvey

The royal family used to work with secret British agents to create a bond between England and the Nazi, while the Duke of Windsor would…

My great-uncle, the secret Nazi hunter

Ian Harvey

When Thomas Harding attended his great-uncle’s funeral in 2006, he was not expecting to stumble upon a family secret his relatives had kept since the…

Norway Airs Documentary That Displays the Skeletal Remains of Jewish Prisoners

In a University of Strasbourg which is located in France, there lies a room with the remains of 86 Jewish corpses. The Nazi scientists used…

Finding Nazi Gold Through a Musical Score: Truth or Hoax?

Heziel Pitogo

Recent weeks have flung the sleepy Bavarian town Mittenwald in a flurry of diggings – scenes that bring into mind George Lucas’ films Indiana Jones. The…

The Lebensborn project was one of most secret and terrifying Nazi projects

Ian Harvey

During World War Two around 12,000 blue-eyed, blond children were kidnapped by the Nazi’s elite security service, the SS. The children were kidnapped as part…

Albert Göring Used His Brother’s Name to Help Jews Escape Germany

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There’s one Göring who comes to mind when people think of the Second World War, yet some may be surprised to learn there was actually…

The Survival Of Franco’s Regime During World War II

War History Online proudly presents this Guest Piece from Manolis Peponas  The dictatorship of general Fransisco Franco in Spain was one of the most despotic…

The Indian Spy Who Fooled Everyone In World War Two

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In what would seem to be a strange series of coincidences, and there were many during the Second World War, the brother of Ian Fleming…

Guest blogger Alex Kershaw: Liberation of Dachau Part I

To commemorate the 71th anniversary of the liberation of Dachau on April 29th, Alex Kershaw has sent us an exclusive extract from his book The…