Rape during the liberation is documented both during and after the advance of United States forces across France against Nazi Germany in later stages of World War II. The invasion of Normandy in June and a second invasion in the south in August, put over two million front line and support troops of the Western Allies into France in 1944. The Liberation of Paris followed on 25 August. Except for German forces penned… Read more »
He walked with a limp and was known to some as the ‘poison dwarf’. The Germany’s propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels was an unlikely Lothario, nicknamed ‘the ram’ by the many actresses and society ladies he seduced. Manipulative and ruthless, he is also revealed as sexually obsessed and mawkishly sentimental. Left enfeebled by polio, his weak frame and… Read more »
Wilhelm Brückner born 11 December 1884 and raised in Baden-Baden. He did his Abitur there. Afterwards he studied law and economics in Strasbourg Freiburg, Heidelberg and Munich. In the First World War, Wilhelm Brückner was an officer in a Bavarian infantry regiment and was discharged as a leutnant. After the war, he joined the Freikorp Franz von Epp and participated in Schützenregiment 42 as a member of the Reichswehr in suppressing the Bavarian Soviet Republic. Towards… Read more »
Dr. Bruno Lohse, who published a scholarly thesis on painter Jacob Philipp Hackert in 1936, worked as an art dealer in Berlin from 1936 to 1939, selling paintings out of his father’s home. Having joined the SS in 1933, Lohse became a member of the Nazi Party in 1937 He would eventually be drafted into Goering’s Luftwaffe, then appointed by Göring to the Einsatzstab… Read more »
Morell joined the Nazi Party when Hitler came to power in 1933. In 1935, Hitler’s personal photographer, Heinrich Hoffmann, was successfully treated by Morell. Hoffmann told Hitler that Morell had saved his life. Hitler met Morell in 1936, and Morell began treating Hitler with various commercial preparations, including a combination of vitamins and hydrolyzed E. coli bacteria called Mutaflor, which successfully treated Hitler’s… Read more »