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Nazis introduced videophones in 1936

It may come as a surprise to many, but the truth is that the Nazis first introduced ‘Video call technology’ on March 1, 1936. The…

Goebbels’ descendents sue for war-time diary royalties

Goebbels

A biography detailing the life of Nazi party leader Joseph Goebbels is now under scrutiny by his family, who are looking to sue the publisher…

Holocaust memorial ‘stumbling stones’ may return to Munich

Ian Harvey

As part of the nationwide Holocaust memorial in Germany, a scheme was started in 1996 by a German artist who created a series of ‘stumbling…

Hitler’s Former Party HQ in Munich Set to Open as Nazi Museum

The former Nazi headquarters of the infamous German dictator Adolf Hitler in Munich is set to open as a Nazi Museum. It will be a…

Nazi Art Dealer Who Stole From Jews On Behalf Of Hitler

Ian Harvey

Cornelius Gurlitt, 80, insists his father Hildebrand was innocent and that the paintings were acquired legitimately. The art collector is now desperately trying to take…

Lloyd Kilmer Made It Out Of A POW Camp On Liberation Day

Ian Harvey

Kilmer was from Minnesota and he enlisted in the war in 1942, when he was 21 years old. After finishing his military training, he went…

Austrian Journalist Claims Salt Miners Saved The Art Works And Not Clooney’s ‘Monuments Men’

Ian Harvey

According to an Austrian journalist whose book has just been published this week in Austria, the £5billion worth artworks were actually saved by a group…

Geli Raubal: Decades Of Unsolved Mystery

Ian Harvey

Frau Braun, 86, is one of the very few people left alive who met Geli Raubal before Hitler marked her life the way he did.…

Awareness campaign leads to probes of suspected Nazi war criminals

Siegphyl

BERLIN — A Nazi hunter notes that their ad campaign has produced 300 tips that point to 110 alleged Nazi criminals. Of the 110 names,…

Hitler’s Degenerate Art Exhibition reminiscences found in a flat in Munich. But why no love for the modernists?

Ian Harvey

This week, a stash of “degenerate” art has been found in an apartment in Munich. We raise up a hugely considered question. Why was there…

1500 Nazi plundered artworks worth about € 1bn found in a Munich Flat

Photo story (Clockwise from top left): (1) Hitler’s art dealer, Hildebrand Gurlitt confiscated & amassed over 1500 Nazi plundered artworks and ordered to destroy them…