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Trove of 1,850 secret files on Nazi activities in Argentina after WWII released
Almost 80 years since Germany surrendered, the Argentinian government has declassified a trove of documents detailing Nazi ...
'We would not have won without them': Honoring Omaha's 'Ritchie Boy'
The “Ritchie Boys” interrogated tens of thousands of prisoners, getting critical information and Katy Self, who is the ...
Harold 'Hal' Bergen, a Jewish GI from Chicago who worked at the Nuremberg Trials, has died at 97
When he was 19, the Army tapped Harold “Hal” Bergen, a Jewish infantryman from Chicago, to work as a sound technician for the ...
'It will be a great hoax in the history of mankind': How fake Hitler diaries fooled the British press
In April 1983, a British newspaper, The Sunday Times, claimed to be printing an extraordinary historical document. In fact, ...
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One fatal miscalculation that allowed Hitler to rise to power in Germany
On January 30, 1933, Adolf ... Hitler became head of a “National Coalition government” containing only two other Nazis, interior minister Wilhelm Frick and minister without portfolio Hermann ...
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'It will be a great hoax in the history of mankind': How fake Hitler diaries fooled the British press
In 1973, the magazine had assigned him to write a story about a dilapidated yacht which had once belonged to Hitler's second-in-command, Hermann Göring. Heidemann spent a fortune buying the yacht ...
Hitler's blood-thirsty decision to turn tide that sped up downfall of Nazis
In January 1945 the end of the Second World War looked hopeful, but was by no means guaranteed as the Nazis continued to ...
The Blitz spirit: what was true and what was a myth
While the so-called ‘Blitz Spirit' has latterly been painted as a myth, aerial attacks by the Luftwaffe on the UK's towns and cities DID bring Britons together in unforeseen ...