Jewish Survivor: Helena Jonas Rosenzweig Testimony

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The Holocaust, was a genocide in which approximately six million Jews were killed by Adolf Hitler's Nazi régime and its collaborators. Some historians use a definition of the Holocaust that includes the additional five million non-Jewish victims of Nazi mass murders, bringing the total to approximately eleven million. Killings took place throughout Nazi Germany and German-occupied territories.

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Nazi Sympathiser and Former King the Duke of Windsor 'Wanted England to Be Bombed', International Archives Reveal

The Duke of Windsor was forced to abdicate in 1936

THE INDEPENDENT: The Duke of Windsor, who is widely regarded as a Nazi sympathiser, once argued that bombing England could bring peace by ending WWII, it has emerged.

Correspondence kept in the Royal Archives between the British royal family and their German relatives in the run up to WWII remains confidential.

However, information pieced together from open archives across 30 countries, including Germany, Spain and Russia, has revealed the close relationship some members of the European aristocracy had with the Nazis.

Dr Karina Urbach, senior research fellow at the Institute of Historical Research at the School of Advance Study at the University of London, has uncovered how the Duke of Windsor told Don Javier Bermejillo, his old friend and Spanish diplomat, that the British royal blamed “the Jews, the Reds and the Foreign Office for the war”. » | Kashmira Gander | Monday, June 08, 2015

How and Why Hitler, the Nazis and the Third Reich Came to Power – Full Documentary

Hitler in Colour: Nazi Rise to Power

A documentary about Adolf Hitler rise to power in 1933. This video is meant for educational purposes only.

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Russia Stages Massive WW2 Parade Despite Western Boycott

President Putin (centre) sat alongside the presidents of China
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BBC AMERICA: Russia has staged its biggest military parade, marking 70 years since victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two.

Thousands of troops marched across Red Square in Moscow, and new armour was displayed for the first time.

Many foreign dignitaries were present, but most Western leaders stayed away because of Russia's role in Ukraine.

President Vladimir Putin said global co-operation had been put at risk in recent years. His Ukrainian counterpart accused him of justifying aggression.

Russia denies claims by the West that it is arming rebels in eastern Ukraine. More than 6,000 people have been killed since fighting began in April 2014 in Ukraine's Donetsk and Luhansk regions. (+ 2 videos) » | Saturday, May 09, 2015

BOOK REVIEW: 'Islam and Nazi German's War'

ISLAM AND NAZI GERMANY'S WAR By David Motadel Belknap Press, $35, 512 pages Wartime alliances are rarely rational. Battlefield allies usually share little but a common enemy. The close relationship between Hitler's top generals and policy planners and the devout Muslim soldiers who fought in Nazi Germany's army was strange and unnatural. The two groups shared…

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Vladimir Putin Claims Britain Was to Blame for Nazi March across Europe

DAILY EXPRESS: VLADIMIR Putin has suggested that Britain and France were to blame for the Nazi march across Europe.

Speaking during a meeting with young historians in Moscow, Mr Putin urged the group to examine the lead-up to the war and claimed that Western historians today try to to "hush up" the Munich Agreement.

The pact involving France and Britain - instigated by Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain – appeased Adolf Hitler by permitted his annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudentenland.

According to a Kremlin transcript of the event, Mr Putin said: "Chamberlain came, waved a piece of paper and said, 'I've brought you peace' when he returned to London after the talks.

"To which Churchill, I think, said somewhere to a small group of people, 'That's it, now war is inevitable'.

"Because compromise with an aggressor in the form of Hitlerite Germany was clearly leading to a large-scale future military conflict, and some people understood that."

However, the Russian president claimed there was nothing wrong with the Nazi-Soviet pact. » | Friday, November 07, 2014

Germany Ordered to Pay £40 Million in Compensation to Jewish Family

Anti-semitic graffiti on a shop in Vienna

DAILY EXPRESS: GERMANY has been ordered to pay a Jewish family whose chain of department stores was seized by the Nazis €50 million (£40 million) in compensation.

The Schocken family lost several shops in the east of the country after Hitler embarked upon his "Aryanization" of German businesses in 1938.

A Berlin tribunal awarded the family €30 million (£24 million) - the value of the businesses owned by brothers Simon and Salman Schocken - plus another €20 million (£16 million) in interest.

The German state can appeal the decision at Lepzig's federal administrative court in Leipzig, the tribunal said in a statement.

Michael Newman, chief executive of the Association of Jewish Refugees said: "It shows that as we come up to 70 years since the end of the war there remains a number of significant travesties that are only now being settled."

Salman also founded Schocken Books in pre–war Berlin before moving the company to the United States and palestine. » | Benjamin Russell | Friday, June 13, 2014

Himmler Letters: 'I Am Travelling to Auschwitz. Kisses. Your Heini'

Himmler with his daughter, Gudrun

THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH: Newly discovered collection of letters, notes and photographs from Heinrich Himmler shed light on private life of man who organised the Holocaust

A collection of letters, notes and photographs from Heinrich Himmler are to be published in full on Sunday, shedding light on the private life of the man who orchestrated the Holocaust.

Spanning from Himmler’s courtship of his future wife in 1927 to just a few weeks before he committed suicide in 1945, the archive published by Die Welt promises to be an unprecedented insight to the domestic relationship of the Nazi high command.

Personal archives relating to Adolf Hitler, Hermann Goerring and Joseph Goebbels have all been destroyed either by close aides or in the final onslaught on Berlin.

In excerpts released by the German newspaper on Saturday night, some exchanges between Himmler and his wife Marga contain a chilling informality.

In a July 1942 note to his wife, he wrote: “I am travelling to Auschwitz. Kisses. Your Heini.” » | Damien McElroy and Inna Lazareva | Sunday, January 26, 2014

DIE WELT: Kapitel 1: Himmler: Die Handschrift des Massenmörders » | Sonntag, 26. Januar 2014

YNET NEWS: Himmler's letters revealed: 'I'm going to Auschwitz. Kisses': Private correspondence of architect of Final Solution shows how top Nazi was willing to shoot his own mother if Hitler asked, but despite mass murder surrounding him family life was indispensable‬‬ » | Yehuda Shohat and Elad Zeret | Sunday, January 26, 2014

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Heinrich Himmler's Letters to Be Published

Heinrich Himmler, Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Nazi SS leader Heinrich Himmler's letters are to be published by Germany's Die Welt

Heinrich Himmler’s love letters to his wife that also document the rise and fall of the Nazi regime are to be made public for the first time, it has been claimed.

Hundreds of the SS commander’s private letters, notes and photographs from 1927 to five weeks before his suicide in 1945 will be published by Die Welt newspaper on Sunday.

The architect of the Holocaust, which claimed the lives of six million Jews, met his future wife Marga, who ran a nursing home in Berlin, in 1927. The letters apparently detail the early months of their relationship, with Himmler signing them “Dein Heini” (“Your Heini”).

But the correspondence between the couple apparently confirms the “not-so-glamorous private life of the Himmler family”.

The relationship started to break down from 1938 onwards, as Himmler had an affair with his private secretary, but contrary to biographers of the Reichsführer SS, he remained in touch with his wife and also wrote several times to his daughter, signing them off with “Euer Pappi” (“Your Daddy”). » | Barney Henderson | Friday, January 24, 2014


DIE WELT: Verschollene Briefe Heinrich Himmlers aufgetaucht: "Welt" exklusiv: 69 Jahre nach dem Suizid Heinrich Himmlers sind in Israel Briefe und Fotos aus seinem Privatbesitz aufgetaucht. Sie geben Einblick in das Leben eines der schlimmsten Nazi-Verbrecher. » | sfk/J.S./sim | Freitag, 24. Januar 2014

DIE WELT: Heinrich Himmler's missing letters surface: "Die Welt" exclusive: 69 years after Heinrich Himmler's suicide his private letters and photographs have surfaced in Israel. They provide insight into the life of one of the main orchestrators of the Holocaust. » | sfk/J.S./sim | Translated by Thilo Maluch | Friday, January 24, 2014

Nazi Collaborators: German Jews

Jews in Nazi Germany who collaborated and helped Hitler and his Nazi party carry out thier hellish designs.

Nazi Bride Schools: 'These Girls Were the Nucleus of the Reich’

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Unearthed documents shed light on the secretive Bride Schools of Nazi Germany

Dressed in modest petticoats and starched white aprons, their hair pulled back into neat plaits, a group of women are pictured marching through a hayfield. Arms linked, broad smiles across their faces, they are carrying baskets laden with flowers, which later they will arrange into pretty garlands. In another photograph, they are purposefully huddled around a sewing machine, darning pairs of pinstriped trousers, while other images show them gleefully feeding livestock, chopping vegetables on a kitchen worktop and singing along to another woman’s accordion-playing.

These faded black-and-white pictures are reminiscent of scenes from the 1800s: surviving off the land, communal living, hard work and simple, wholesome pleasures. In fact, they were taken during the height of the Second World War – and far from depicting idyllic country life, they are a rare glimpse inside a Reichsbräuteschule, or Reich Bride School, one of a cluster of training academies set up by the Nazis to educate women, many of them teenagers, to be suitable wives. The photographs themselves took pride of place in the Nazis’ official biweekly magazine for women, NS-Frauen Warte.

Until recently, little was known about these schools, where the Nazi marriage doctrine, ranging from domestic chores to worshipping the Führer, was instilled in the partners of Adolf Hitler’s personal bodyguards, the Schutzstaffel (SS). But, this week, a series of documents unearthed in Germany’s Federal Archive, based in Koblenz, shed light on their sinister operation. Historians discovered a rule book, detailing the disturbing oaths that prospective spouses had to swear, and certificates presented to those who passed the rigorous training course. So just what were “bride schools”? And why, nearly 70 years after they closed down, are they still shrouded in mystery? » | Sarah Rainey | Friday, August 16, 2013

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Six German Women Investigated over Auschwitz Crimes

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Six women who were guards at the Auschwitz death camp are being investigated on suspicion of complicity in mass murder, German authorities confirmed on Friday.

The women are among 50 former Auschwitz guards still living in Germany whose cases are being examined by the country's Central Office for the Investigation of National Socialist Crimes.

Thomas Will, an investigator at the Central Office, confirmed that the women were under investigation for allegedly aiding and abetting murder. The women are now in their 90s, Mr Will said. The female guards were assigned to women's barracks.

Earlier this year, German authorities launched a fresh attempt to bring surviving perpetrators of the Holocaust to justice, which has so far resulted in the arrest of alleged Auschwitz guard Hans Lipschis, 93.

Lipschis, who was arrested in Aalen, southern Germany, claims he was only a cook.

The renewed push follows the conviction in 2011 of John Demjanjuk, a guard at Sobibor death camp. » | Jeevan Vasagar, Berlin | Friday, August 09, 2013

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Posters offering a reward for information about Nazis still living in Germany have been put up in three cities.

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