Irma Ida Ilse Grese (7 October 1923 – 13 December 1945) was a female SS guard at the Nazi concentration camps of Ravensbrück and Auschwitz, and served as warden of the women’s section of Bergen Belsen where the Jewish girl Anne Frank died. Grese was convicted for crimes against humanity committed at Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen, and sentenced… Read more »
Adolf Hitler, one of the greatest mass murderers in history, is remembered by his secretary Traudl Humps-Junge as a kind and paternal man who ate little aside from mashed potato and passionately loved his dog. Traudl Junge, who died age 81 suffering from cancer , was just 22-years-old when Hitler selected the slim blonde… Read more »
Once called by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt “ more dangerous than 10.000 men,” a part-Jewish Austrian princess – well-known seductress and Mata Hari type figure – was a spy before and during the Nazi rise to power in the 1930s, moving in the highest echelons of power. She became a facilitator between those in the U.K…. Read more »
The Siegfried Line was a series of fortifications on the western border of Germany, stretching more than 390 miles from Kleve, near the Dutch border, all the way to Weil am Rhein near the border of Switzerland. Called the Westwall by the Germans, it was built between 1938 and 1940 and is made of more… Read more »
Josef Terboven, born on 23-05-18989 in Essen, was a Nazi leader most known for his brutal leadership during the Nazi occupation of Norway. Terboven was born the son of minor landed gentry. He served for the German field artillery and nascent air force in World War I and was awarded the Iron Cross . He was… Read more »