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Obsessed with an ancient king, Heinrich Himmler hunted for a skeleton, held ghostly candlelit ceremonies in a crypt, and transformed a medieval church into a sinister SS temple...
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Military History Quarterly
Miklós Radnóti was born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1909. His mother died while giving birth to him and his twin brother, who was stillborn, and his father died when he was 12 years old. Radnóti was taken in by relatives, and he worked for...
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The Nazis twisted Germany's alphabet with propaganda in 1933. Now Germany will reclaim its history with changes starting in 2021...
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A sinister plot by Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels turned civilians into brutal murderers targeting Allied airmen who parachuted into Germany...
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“Stand by for a ram!” rang Lieutenant Charles Hutchins’ command throughout the USS Borie during the evening hours of October 31, 1943. Steaming at 22 knots past the Azores, the Borie closed in on the German U-405. What ensued was an...
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“It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.”...
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HistoryNet
Adolf Hitler and his Nazi regime turned to voodoo science in their drive for supremacy. In March 1940, Hans Bender, Germany’s best-known parapsychologist, wrote to Karl Ernst Krafft, a young Swiss astrologer he had known since his days...
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A nationwide survey commissioned by Claims Conference, a nonprofit organization that secures compensation for Holocaust survivors, revealed disturbing findings this Wednesday. The U.S. Millennial Holocaust Knowledge and Awareness Survey,...
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MHQ Magazine
On Hitler’s 50th, adoring Germans hailed their leader for making their country a great power again and for stopping short of the all-out war they so feared—or so they thought....
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Military History Magazine
Léon Degrelle was willing to put his convictions on the line on the Russian Front. Of the many European Fascist leaders who collaborated with the German forces that occupied their countries during World War II, Léon Joseph Marie Ignace...
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Military History Magazine
The Swiss and the Nazis: How the Alpine Republic Survived in the Shadow of the Third Reich by Stephen P. Halbrook, Casemate Publishers, Havertown, Pa., 2006, $29.95. “It is night, and soldiers on duty hear aircraft, plot their...
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Military History Magazine
In World War II Jerzy Krzyzanowski resisted the Nazi occupation, only to be arrested by the Soviets. Germany invaded and quickly defeated Poland in 1939, but Polish units—including the clandestine or Home Army—continued to fight until...
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Aviation History Magazine
The highest-scoring German ace of WWII—and of all time—chalked up an incredible 352 aerial victories. The Soviet pilot German warplanes. It was May 8, 1945—Adolf Hitler had been dead for over a week, and Germany was surrendering....
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Military History Magazine
Capture is an occupational hazard for soldiers and escape is a POW’s duty—some even succeed with imagination and style....
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World War II Magazine
Jagdgeschwader 301/302 “Wilde Sau,” In Defense of the Reich with the Bf 109, Fw 190 and Ta 152 by Willi Reschke; Schiffer Publishing Ltd., Atglen, Pa., 2005, $39.95. Jagdgeschwader 301/302 “Wilde Sau” is a unit history with a...
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World War II Magazine
Endkampf: Soldiers, Civilians, and the Death of the Third Reich by Stephen G. Fritz; University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, 2004, $35. Stephen Fritz, author of Frontsoldaten, has produced another winner. Endkampf is the story of the...