Those working for the Ahnenerbe project set out to prove that the Aryan race was descended from Nordic gods, and spent vast ...

The Nazis themselves were murder nerds. Now their successors are LARPing as wizards of racial superiority as they commit very ...

The book had long lingered there. Known, but not acknowledged. Sitting on her father's bookshelf for decades after the war in Western Europe had culminated in an Allied victory on May 8, 1945.

In April 1945, as Nazi Germany is on the brink of defeat, the Swedish Red Cross launches the largest rescue operation of World War II. The mission – arranged in secret between a Swedish aristocrat ...

The “Ritchie Boys” interrogated tens of thousands of prisoners, getting critical information and Katy Self, who is the ...

Among the Nazi leaders, Heinrich Himmler was, as Richard Breitman observes in this ground- breaking study, an easy man to underestimate—short, pudgy, near-sighted, chinless. Yet Himmler holds a ...

By the time George Orwell published this piercing insight into totalitarianism, in 1949, Heinrich Himmler had been dead four years. But Himmler, the founder and leader of Nazi Germany's infamous ...

In July 1942 Heinrich Himmler again visited Auschwitz. There were approximately 30,000 inmates there at the time, most of them Jews and Polish political prisoners. He inspected the main camp ...