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Nazi Summer Camps Revealed in 1930s America

In the 1930s, before World War Two had begun, a series of Nazi summer camps were set up across the United States. The Nazi-themed camps…

Hitler’s Mein Kampf to be Republished in January 2016

New copies of Hitler’s 1930s manifesto, Mein Kampf, are to go on sale in Germany for the first time since being banned 70 years ago.…

WWII and Monopoly, how it helped captured Airmen escape!

Heziel Pitogo

  The board game called Monopoly had really come a long way since it was first mass-produced in America in 1934. The game is basically…

Dutch Resistance Fighter’s Final Letter Delivered After 72 Years

If a person is killed in wartime, the one thing that helps his or her family members deal with the grief is knowledge. Knowing the…

Germany Still Paying Pensions For WWII Spanish Volunteers Who Went To War For Hitler

In 1962 Germany came to an agreement with the Spanish dictator, Francisco Franco, that Germany would support volunteers that signed up to fight for Hitler,…

The Red Baron: Manfred von Richthofen

The greatest fighter ace of the First World War, Manfred von Richthofen was born on 2 May 1892. Becoming an officer cadet at the age…

German Grandmother On Trial for Inciting Right-wing Hatred and Denying Existence of Auschwitz

An elderly German woman has declared that the Auschwitz concentration camp was never historically proven to have existed. Ursula Haverbeck, who is now 87 years…

The Man Who Broke In And Out of Auschwitz, Not Once But Twice, Died Aged 96

A World War Two veteran and prisoner of war has died aged 96. Denis Avey controversially broke in out of Auschwitz, not once but twice!…

New French compensation fund for Holocaust victims

France has opened a new monetary compensation fund to compensate the members of the Jewish population who were deported from the country during World War Two…

Why You Can’t Take Selfies At Auschwitz

A British novelist and journalist, Anthony Horowitz, recently made a plea for the banning of self-photography – the taking of “selfies” – at the Auschwitz…

Hitler’s Last Residence, Fuhrerbunker, Went Unnoticed For 60 Years

Hitler’s Last Day

A parking lot now sits where Adolf Hitler’s Reich Chancellery once stood. It is long gone thanks to Soviet troops liberating Berlin marking the end…

Germany Finally Removes Nazi Laws from its Legal Code

Like many other aspects of the German society, Nazis paid special heed towards the justice system to compliment their evil motives.  Adolf Hitler authorized a…