Around 250,000 Jews were killed at the Sobibor Nazi death camp, located in Poland, and an excavation of the site reveals at least four children also died there during the Holocaust. Archaeologists working at the now closed camp uncovered four metal ID tags belonging to children ages five to 12, engraved with names, dates of … Read more
Visitors at Nazi Buchenwald concentration camp are condemned for tobogganing over mass graves where 76,000 people died during WWII The German WWII memorial urged visitors to avoid spending leisure pastimes People were spotted enjoying sledging at the mass graves while touring the site Buchenwald and its sub camp were used to house thousands of slave … Read more
SAS BAND OF BROTHERS by Damien Lewis (Quercus £20, 416 pp) When Winston Churchill was voted out of office in the 1945 General Election, less than two months after VE Day, the Special Air Service regiment that had done so much for the Allied cause lost its greatest champion and benefactor. A couple of months … Read more
Drunk airline passenger, 28, who gave Nazi salute and launched racist tirade in front of Holocaust victims’ ‘disgusted’ family on Wizz Air flight from Poland to Liverpool avoids jail ‘Clearly drunk’ Louis Mann, 28, gave a Nazi salute amid a tirade of racist abuse A passenger, who lost family to the Holocaust, said he was … Read more
In northern Virginia, a secretive Army storage facility that holds hundreds of seized Nazi artworks has drawn comparisons to the warehouse from the Indiana Jones film Raiders Of The Lost Ark. Since the end of World War Two, 456 pieces of Nazi art and propaganda have remained under lock and key at the Army’s Museum … Read more
Fans of the Indiana Jones movies went into meltdown over New Year after ‘snowflake’ Channel 4 bosses cut the famous face-melting Nazis scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark. Steven Spielberg’s classic 1981 film is rated PG in the UK, which means that it is approved for ‘general viewing’ and ‘should not unsettle a child … Read more
A German court has fined an academic for claiming that a Jewish concentration camp prisoner had a lesbian relationship with an SS guard. Dr Anna Hájková, an historian at the University of Warwick, has been fined €4,000 (£3,700) for breaching an injunction that prevents her from naming the prisoner. The injunction was granted to the … Read more
A mother who left her 18-year old son starve to death, leaving him looking like a Nazi death camp victim, in a family home packed with food, has been freed after less than two years behind bars. Jordan Burling, 18, resembled the ‘victim of a Second World War death camp’ due to malnutrition when he … Read more
Islamic State in ‘Nazi doodlebug’ bomb plot: Jihadi used British company as cover to buy parts for flying explosives, report reveals An ISIS network exploited lax rules in the UK to set up fake companies They shipped weapons from abroad and smuggled them into IS territory The procurement network even requested Nazi style doodlebug bombs … Read more
A Tennessee man who served as an armed guard in a Nazi concentration camp at Neuengamme will be deported to Germany after his appeal was dismissed. The Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) revealed it dismissed the appeal from Friedrich Karl Berger on Thursday, just one day before the 75th anniversary of the start of the Nuremberg trials … Read more