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The Holocaust: A Display of the Most Gruesome War Crime Artefacts

Ian Harvey
The Holocaust

With ghoulish collections from war crimes, the Little dean Crime Through Time Museum in Gloucestershire is one of the most revealing and thoughtfully put together…

Did Hans Kammler Commit Suicide?

Ian Harvey
Hans Kammler

High-ranking SS General Hans Kammler was said to have committed suicide near the end of the Second World War. Now, he is the subject of…

Newly Discovered Nazi Camp Excavated in Jersey

Ian Harvey
Nazi camp

Lager Wick, a labor camp operated by the Nazi regime during WWII has undergone excavation in Jersey. Lager Wick was already known for what it…

Former Woman Who Worked at Auschwitz Accused of Prisoner Crueltly

Ian Harvey
prisoner

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…

Capturing The Butcher of Auschwitz

Ian Harvey
Auschwitz

Auschwitz Kommandant Rudolf Höss, known as the Butcher of Auschwitz, is more or less synonymous with the word “Holocaust,” having played a hand in the…

Auschwitz Survivor Baffled By Bottle Message

Ian Harvey
Auschwitz

The message was found this week at Auschwitz, by a group of workers, who were demolishing a wall. The wall used to be part of…

Looking at the sins of the past as debate among Nazi sons rages on

Siegphyl

Last week, two elderly Germans were on stage at London’s Southbank Centre in a debate about their fathers. Onlookers might think that the scene was…

Can Auschwitz Be Saved?

Ian Harvey
Auschwitz

Every person who has ever been to Auschwitz remembers the two tons of black and brown, blond, red, grey and white hair of those unfortunate…

Loaned Holocaust Barracks will Return to Poland

The Guardian reports that for over two decades and long negotiations, the half of a barrack in Auschwitz that was on loan to the United…

Holocaust Survivor Recalls The Bitterest Months Of Nazi Persecution

Ian Harvey

He was arrested together with his parents and eight siblings and he lied about his age, hopping he would be sent to a labour camp…

WWII and Holocaust are no joke: Committee protests against Kimmel’s anti-Polish ethnic putdowns

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The Anti-Bigotry Committee of the Polish American Congress released an official letter in protest to the series of anti-Polish ethnic jokes which was used recently…

Turkish Students Accused of Promoting the Nazi Salute at Auschwitz

The Global Jewish News Source (JTA) reports that two tourists, students, were detained by guards on duty at the Auschwitz museum. Why? Allegedly the students…