Nazism

The Horror of Hitler, Still Left Behind
The BBC had reported yesterday that Hitler's family home in a small Austrian town has been put up for sale with an asking price quoted as 2.2 million Euros. There are many who fear the repercussions of this sale. This article highlights the horrors that Hitler has still left behind, the horrors that still leave people debating everything to do with him, more than 60 years after his death.

Life in Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany relates to the time when Hitler established the dictates of Italian Fascism in Germany, on coming to power in 1933. Life in Nazi Germany was one of initial 'ups' and a subsequent and consistent 'tumble-down' of economy, politics and quality of life. The era is remembered the world over as one steeped in darkness and grief...

A Hidden Note from Auschwitz Spells Hope Then and Now
A note hidden over 60 years ago in the walls of the famous Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz was discovered recently and added to a Polish museum commemorating victims of the prison camp.

Life in Concentration Camps
Concentration camps are popularly associated with the Nazi practice of retaining political prisoners between 1933 and 1945. However, a broader understanding of the term refers to detention camps that were set up and manned during war times, across the globe and ages. Life in concentration camps was never easy and it was natural for the victors to exploit their captives...

Retired Ohio Auto Worker Charged 29,000 Times for Nazi War Crimes
John Demjanjuk, an 88-year-old Cleveland man, has been charged with 29,000 counts of acting as an accessory to murder by a Munich court looking into Nazi war crimes.

Nazi Medical Experiments
If you want to know about the Nazi Medical experiments, read this article.

The White Rose
"We will not be silent. We are your bad conscience. The White Rose will not leave you in peace!"

Renaissance and Nazism as Ideas of Progress
The Nazis sought to perfect humanity by ridding it of inferior and deleterious specimen and by restoring a glorious, "clean", albeit self-consciously idealized past.

How the Nazis Took Flight From Valkyries and Rhinemaidens
Bizet and Puccini more popular than Wagner - Bored party faithful were dragged to Master's works

After Decades in Dark, Remnants of Stolen Lives to Finally Be Seen
Largest collection of Nazi death camp records to be opened up to historians.

Behind the Camera - Secret Life of Man Who Saved Jews From Nazis
Ernest Leitz II Honour for German Leica manufacturer who sent prewar apprentices to US.

Art Looted By Nazis Handed Back to Czech Family
The family of a Czech lawyer who was tortured by the Nazis will get back three drawings seized by the Gestapo in 1939 which are now at the Courtauld Institute in London.

Nazi Art Deal Forces Dutch to Face Guilt
Masterpieces snatched by Goering are returned to Jewish collector's family.

Beast of Belsen and His Lover in Nuremberg Exhibit
The faces of two lovers who did terrible things to others in a terrible place were shown to a mass online audience for the first time yesterday.

Dead and Buried War Hero Claims Medal 60 Years on
It was only by chance that Georgy Ponomarev found out he was dead.

An Alternative to Nazism
Some thoughts of the alternatives to any ideology that focuses on one race only.

Artists Create a Reminder of the City in Ruins
Sixty years ago, after a ferocious Russian offensive, the centre of Berlin was in ruins. Now, the eerie landscape in the immediate aftermath of the second world war has been brought back to life in a vivid tableau.

A Drive Through the Woods ... to a Terrible Find
Sixty years on, the world must not forget Belsen, says liberator.

US Guard Tells How Nazi Girlfriend Duped Him Into Helping Goering Evade Hangman
Enduring mystery of the 1946 Nuremberg trials apparently solved.

The World Remembers
For many of those bearing witness in the heart of Europe's darkness, this was a final farewell and an attempt at a last act of catharsis.

'This Must Not Happen Again'
The commander of the Soviet troops who liberated Auschwitz today said that the world should never forget what his men found there.

Germans Try to Lure British Teachers Away From Nazi Image of History
Rare 'freebie' brings night at the opera and penthouse suite. Sitting on a stool in one of Berlin's most expensive Italian restaurants, Peter Liddell recalled the moment when he had been asked whether he would like an all-expenses paid trip to Germany.

History Cleansed to 're-educate' Ba'athists
Linking nationalist history with Nazism to try to draw Ba'athists back into the fold is getting a cool reception, writes Rory McCarthy.

Eugenics and the Future of the Human Species
The Nazis regarded the murder of the feeble-minded and the mentally insane - intended to purify the race and maintain hereditary hygiene - as a form of euthanasia.

Looted art commission starts work
A new German commission began work yesterday to help find "fair and just solutions" in ongoing disputes over the rightful ownership of art seized by Nazis, mostly from Jewish victims.

MP attacked for Nazi comparison
Israel's Holocaust memorial council has accused two British MPs of malicious distortion of history for comparing conditions endured by a million Palestinians trapped in Gaza to the Warsaw ghetto under Nazi occupation.

Rail giant faces WW2 court action
An 82-year-old Frenchman stood in a Paris courtroom yesterday to demand damages from France's state-owned rail company, SNCF, for carrying his mother and father to their deaths in Nazi concentration camps.

Stalingrad
This month, in 1942, many consider the turning point in the Second World War. Four major campaigns were undertaken during this period, costing hundreds of thousands of lives and sending the enemy, Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, on the defensive for the first time in three years. The battles were Alamein, Guadalcanal, Stalingrad, and Torch, and we will examine each here in the coming weeks.

Nazis Tested Cocaine on Camp Inmates
Nazi researchers used concentration camp inmates to test a cocaine-based "wonder drug" they hoped would enhance the performance of German troops, it was reported yesterday. Prisoners at Sachsenhausen who were given the drug, code-named D-IX, were forced to march in circles carrying 20kg...

The Battle of El Alamein
This month, in 1942, many consider the turning point in the Second World War. Four major campaigns were undertaken during this period, costing hundreds of thousands of lives and sending the enemy, Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, on the defensive for the first time in three years. The battles were Alamein, Guadalcanal, Stalingrad, and Torch, and we will examine each here in the coming weeks.

The Titanic Waltz
It was as surrealistic as they get: a Viennese Ball in a decaying Balkan city. Organized by the nation of former Nazis and current Nazi sympathizers in a land of former communist thieves turned capitalist robbers.

Inquiry into Belgium's Nazi record
Belgium may investigate the alleged complicity of its wartime authorities in the deportation and murder of some 25,000 Jews.

Vichy war criminal too ill to stay in jail, court rules
Outrage as 92-year-old ex-cabinet minister who collaborated with Nazis is released after serving just 30 months.

Denmark Urged to Reveal Long List of Nazi Collaborators
The extent of Denmark's collaboration with the Nazis during the second world war may be much greater than previously thought. A sealed national archive may contain the names of up to 300,000 Danish Nazis or Nazi sym pathisers gathered by the wartime resistance, leading historians say...

Neo-Nazi leader 'was MI6 agent'
Germany's most notorious postwar neo-Nazi party was led by an intelligence agent working for the British, according to both published and unpublished German sources.

The Butcher of Genoa is Guilty
A 93-year-old former Nazi SS officer was given a seven-year sentence yesterday for his part in the murder of 59 Italian prisoners, ending one of the last Nazi trials.

Wallis Simpson, the Nazi minister, the telltale monk and an FBI plot
US papers shed light on efforts to spy on fascist sympathisers. When the Duke and Duchess of Windsor sailed into Palm Beach, Florida, on the SS Berkshire from Nassau on April 18 1941 they were looking forward to enjoying three days of relaxation at the Everglades Club playing golf and drinking and gossiping with American high society.

Roosevelt Ordered Surveillance of Windsors
President Roosevelt personally ordered covert surveillance on the Duke and Duchess of Windsor during the second world war after receiving intelligence that the duchess had been passing secrets to a top Nazi, according to documents released by the FBI.

Fascism - The Tensile Permanence
Nazism - and, by extension, fascism (though the two are by no means identical) - amounted to permanent revolutionary civil wars. Fascist movements were founded, inter alia, on negations and on the militarization of politics. Their raison d'etre and vigor were derived from their rabid opposition to liberalism, communism, conservatism, rationalism, and individualism and from exclusionary racism. It was a symbiotic relationship - self-definition and continued survival by opposition.

Hamburg Court Tries Last of the Ss
A former Nazi SS officer appeared in a court in Hamburg yesterday accused of ordering the execution of 59 Italian prisoners almost 60 years ago.