Tag: history

It’s the end of WW2 in Europe. But how to get on with victims and perpetrators? On April 16, 1945, a few days after the liberation of the concentration camp “Buchenwald” by US soldiers, people…

German Wehrmacht and Hitler is losing the war at the eastern front at Stalingrad. At the end of January in 1943, the German army is encircled by soviet forces at Stalingrad. In Stalingrad, disgusting conditions…

Whether Sobibor or Auschwitz, the genocide in Poland was committed to the Jews.´ Johann Niemann was an SS officer at the Sobibor camp for Jews in Poland. Niemann and his colleagues are responsible for the…

The hunger plan to starve the population of the Soviet Union is part oft he inhuman strategie of the Nazi politics. Herbert Backe is State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Food and Agriculture. A…

The Second World War began with the invasion of Poland and Hitler seemed unstoppable. On the first of September 1939, Germany invaded Poland, triggering the Second World War. Hitler’s air force kills thousands of innocent…

Adolf Hitler’s speeches, the notes and pictures he took, his visits and even Hitler himself are pure propaganda and strategy. October 1934: The Reich Harvest Festival on the Bücheberg near Hamelin attracts millions of people….

In 1933, there were concentration camps for Jews and footage of them available. But why would the Nazis present their terrible deeds to the public? It´s summer 1933 when a Nazi film crew documents the…

With democracy, Hitler could not come to power, so he had to eliminate it. The process of replacing democracy began in Germany in 1928. It was an attempt to actively destroy the democracy that had…

How became Mussolini became the new enemy of Hitler and Germany? In 1943, the German army invades Italy, where fascism rules under Mussolini. After the invasion of the Luftwaffe, Mussolini, the creator of fascism, broke…

The First World War opened a world of chaos and devastation. But how could Hitler and his Nazism emerge at this time? France 1940: It is the time of the Second World War and the…

In June 1944, the German territory begins to shrink and the risk of being murdered as a Jew and forced laborer increases. Norbert Wollheim is a Jew who was forced to work in a Berlin…

How could so many Jews die in Auschwitz? The concentration camps: A crime, made possible by war. Definition by labor was a German idea and the reason for the concentration and labor camps for Jews….

Mossad against the Egyptian regime: What will the Mossad do? In 1962, the Egyptian regime launched its new missile program, which poses a threat to Israel and the Mossad. So, the Mossad and its secret…

What is the next threat to Israel and the Mossad? A new threat to Israel and Mossad is emerging from Hezbollah. The radical Islamic terror is now one of the greatest threats to the Mossad….

How did the forced labor of Jews developed in Germany under Hitler? And what happened to the Jews during this time? Forced labor of Jews was a mass phenomenon under Hitler’s regime. The use of…

What did the Mossad after the Six-Day War in 1967? After the Six-Day War, Mossad focuses more and more on the Palestinian conflict. All over the world, Mossad hunted Palestinian terrorists. As Israel occupies more…

Have you ever heard the name Mossad in your life? If not, the Israeli Secret Service Mossad has done a good job. Mossad is one of the most notorious intelligence agencies in the world. The…

John Rabe was a German Nazi who protected hundreds of thousands of Chinese from Japanese soldiers at the Nanjing Massacre. John Rabe traveled to China in 1908, working in Nanjing, the former capital of China….

It is 1945, Berlin is destroyed, bombs and fire are part of everyday life and Hitler lives now in the bunker. These are the last weeks of the Third Reich, and the war is about…

How could Stauffenberg conduct operation “Valkyrie”? And why did Stauffenberg seek Hitler’s death? In 1944, Claus Schenk Count of Stauffenberg parked his briefcase with a bomb in it near Adolf Hiler during a meeting. He…

How started the downfall of Hitler and the NSDAP? World War II was in its final days and Hitler’s inner circle was preparing Germany’s armed forces. However, on March 19, 1945, Hitler announced the Nero…