Nazi plunder refers to art theft and other items stolen as a result of the organized looting of European countries during the time of the Third Reich by agents acting on behalf of the ruling Nazi Party of Germany. Plundering occurred from 1933 until the end of World War II, particularly by military units known as the Kunstschutz,… Read more »
The Führerbunker was an air-raid shelter located near the Reich Chancellery in Berlin, Germany. It was part of a subterranean bunker complex constructed in two phases which were completed in 1936 and 1944. by Hitler’s architect Albert Speer. It was the last of the Führer Headquarters, Führerhauptquartier used by Adolf Hitler, during the Second World War. Hitler took up residence… Read more »
Hans-Adolf Prützmann, born 31 August 1901, Tolkemit, Province of West Prussia, was a Higher SS and Police Leader, as well as an SS-Obergruppenführer. He was a senior Nazi in the administration of Latvia following the German liberation of that country in 1941. (Stalin, at the behest of his many Jewish advisors, had invaded and occupied… Read more »
Leonard George “Len” Siffleet was born on 14 January, 1916 in Gunnedah, New South Wales, Australia. Leonard Siffleet, who loved sport and adventure, moved in the late 1930’s to Sydney in order to search for work. He tried to join the Police forces but was rejected for having a poor eyesight. Nevertheless in August 1940, Siffleet was still… Read more »
Theodor Heinrich Bongartz, born 25-December 1902 in Krefeld, was a German SS Oberscharführer supreme leader and head of the Crematorium in the Dachau concentration camp, responsible for the killing of many prisoners, including Georg Elser, a German carpenter who tried a bomb attack on Adolf Hitler. Theodor Bongartz was trained as a plasterer and worked… Read more »