Showing posts with the label Nazi

The 1,000-Ton Nazi Tank That Was Never Built

Aug 11, 2023

In the midst of the Second World War, the Nazis unveiled prototypes for an array of extraordinary weaponry, spanning colossal aircraft, adva...

Franz Halder: The Only German to be Decorated by Both Hitler and Kennedy

May 6, 2022

During the Third Riech, Hitler fortified his leadership atop bastions of war, invasion and politics. One of them though dared to traipse acr...

Kugelpanzer: The Mysterious Nazi Ball Tank

Apr 25, 2022

When the Soviet Union invaded Manchuria in 1945 after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the Red Army recovered a strange vehicle from the pos...

Operation Epsilon: When Allied Forces Locked Ten German Scientists Together in a House

Feb 1, 2022

Near the end of World War 2, the Allied forces arrested ten German scientists who were thought to have worked on Nazi Germany's nuclear ...

The Nazi Gold of Merkers Mine

Jan 31, 2022

When the advancing Third Army of the United States marched into the captured German town of Merkers-Kieselbach towards the end of World War ...

The Degenerate Art Exhibition of 1937

Jun 14, 2021

Not everybody gets modern art. From Andy Warhol’s Soup Cans to a banana stuck to the wall , there are plenty of examples from the perplexin...

Anschlussdenkmal: The Forbidden Nazi Memorial

May 14, 2021

The Anschlussdenkmal, or Anschluss Monument, in the Austrian town of Oberschützen, is a Nazi monument erected to commemorate the bloodless c...

Nazi Amphitheaters

Apr 28, 2021

Near the summit of a large wooded hill overlooking the town of Heidelberg in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, stands an open-air theater called a...

Hitler’s Monster Railway

Feb 27, 2021

Hitler’s megalomaniac plans for Germany included a monumental new railway. This railway was supposed to connect the most important cities i...

The Uranium Cubes From a Nazi Nuclear Reactor

Aug 31, 2020

In the summer of 2013, Physicist Timothy Koeth of University of Maryland received an unexpected gift from one of his friends. It was a small...

Pervitin: The Wonder Drug That Fueled Nazi Germany

May 25, 2020

When Heinrich Böll, the German writer and Nobel laureate, was a young man in his twenties, like many able-bodied youths of his time, he jo...

Hessy Levinsons Taft: The Jewish Woman Who Was Hitler’s “Perfect Aryan Baby”

Feb 24, 2020

Hessy Levinsons Taft, a retired chemistry professor at St. John's University, New York, has an amusing story to tell. When she was only ...

The Other Anne Franks: 10 Holocaust Diaries You Haven’t Read

Aug 29, 2019

Anne Frank wasn’t the only teenager who lost her childhood to war. Thousands of children and teenagers across Europe found their freedoms c...

Syndrome K: The Fake Disease That Saved Lives

Mar 20, 2019

In the fall of 1943, as German soldiers began rounding up Jews in Italy and deporting them by the thousands to concentration camps, a myster...

Stolpersteine: The ‘Stumbling Stones’ of Holocaust Victims

Mar 8, 2019

With hundreds of things to see in Berlin, few tourists pay attention to what lies under their feet. The barely four inch by four inch blocks...

Schwerer Gustav: The World’s Biggest Gun Ever Built

Nov 19, 2018

Hitler sure had some grand ideas—from mass murdering Jews and conquering Europe, to rebuilding Berlin and draining the Mediterranean sea . ...

Project Riese: The Secret Nazi Tunnels in Poland

Mar 17, 2018

Eighty kilometers to the south of Wroclaw, underneath Poland’s oldest mountain range, the Owl Mountains, lies a massive underground complex ...

The Cathedral of Light

Sep 23, 2017

Every year, the Nazi Party used to hold large annual rallies in Nuremberg, which was at that time the center of the German Reich. These rall...

The Schwerbelastungskörper And Hitler’s Grand Plans For Berlin

Jun 16, 2016

On the corner of Dudenstrasse and General-Pape-Strasse in Berlin, between the S-Bahn tracks and a housing estate, stands a massive cylindric...

Memorial to The Murdered Jews of Europe

May 26, 2016

One of the most impressive and controversial memorial to the Holocaust is located near Brandenburg Gate, in the Friedrichstadt neighborhood ...