The Ten Worst Nazi Concentration Camps
In 1933, the first Nazi concentration camp was built in Dachau, Germany to imprison dissidents. Heinrich Himmler took over in 1934 and start arresting “racially undesirable…
When the former commander Treblinka, Kurt Franz, was arrested in 1959, a search of his home yielded a scrapbook with horrific photos of the massacre titled “Beautiful Years”
Kurt Hubert Franz (born on 17 January 1914 — died on 4 July 1998) was an officer of the SS and one of many commanders…
Card game scrutinised by Polish government for incorrect war reference
In a World War Two faux pas, US toy maker Mattel has printed the words Nazi Poland on cards in a new game it has…
A strange and lonely hero, SS Officer Kurt Gerstein who tried to save Jews
One of the most horrifying testimonies from the horrors of the Holocaust was left by a conscience-stricken SS officer, Kurt Gerstein, who visited the deathcamps…
Former Woman Who Worked at Auschwitz Accused of Prisoner Crueltly
A woman now known as Gisela S. was a prison guard at the notorious internment camp in Auschwitz where she was responsible for the mistreatment…