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The buildings stand in a place that seems to have been lifted up out of the surrounding landscape. The densely wooded Ettersberg, a hill located not far from the cultural hub of Weimar in the eastern ...
Irmgard Furchner, a 99-year-old former Nazi camp secretary, was handed a two-year suspended sentence in 2022 for complicity ...
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was taken from his cell in the Flossenbürg concentration camp in Bavaria by an SS officer (the SS was the elite guard of the Nazi regime). The 39-year-old was hanged — just one mon ...
Furchner is likely the last person to be convicted of direct complicity in the Holocaust, which ended 80 years ago.
In April 2025, social media users claimed the CIA "just" released classified documents proving Nazi leader Adolf Hitler ...
The German' tells the story of a Holocaust survivor who must go back to Germany to infiltrate the SS and capture Josef ...
Furchner made headlines in 2022 when she was convicted by a German court for her role at the Stutthof concentration camp.
Jacques Moalic, a 102-year-old former Agence France-Presse journalist, remembers vividly the liberation of Buchenwald ...
In his novel 1984, George Orwell imagined an employee tasked with rewriting archives to align them with Big Brother’s ...
Beuys is one of Germany's most famous artists of the postwar period, but his stance on National Socialism remains a divisive matter that still needs critical examination.
Oskar Jakob, 94, is a Jewish Holocaust survivor who once assembled V-1 flying bombs in a subterranean concentration camp, and I’m the granddaughter of the engineer who developed those secret Nazi ...
According to several of the sources, German forces placed many concentration camp prisoners at the test site as human guinea ...