Oswald Rothaug, born on 17 May 1897, in Mittelsinn, was In June 1933 named a prosecutor in Nuremberg, and in April 1937 he became the regional court director in Schweinfurt and director of Nazi “special courts” or “Sondergerichts” at Nuremberg. In 1938 he became a member of the German Nazi Party, though he had applied the year previously. He worked closely… Read more »
A camp for Dutch political prisoners was established at Vught, near the city in southern Holland near the city of Hertogenbosch, capital of the Noord-Brabant province and close to my hometown Eindhoven. In September 1944 Eindhoven was liberated by the 101 AB “Screaming Eagles”, the “Band of Brothers” during Operation Market Garden. The camp… Read more »
SS-Obersturmbannführer Bruno Gesche, born on 5 November 1905 in Berlin, was an Oberstleutnant of the SS in Nazi Germany, a member of Adolf Hitler’s entourage , and the commander of Adolf Hitler’s personal bodyguard (SS-Begleitkommando des Führers) for the periods June 1934 – April 1942 and December 1942 – December 1944. Gesche’s aspirations for… Read more »
Oskar Gröning; born 10 June 1921 in Nienburg, was a German SS junior squad leader who was stationed at the Auschwitz concentration camp. His responsibilities included counting and sorting the money taken from prisoners, and he was in charge of the personal property of arriving prisoners. On a few occasions he witnessed the procedures of mass killing in the camp. … Read more »
Albert Edward Pryke “Ted” Briggs was the last survivor of the battle cruiser HMS Hood, sunk by the German warship Bismarck in the North Atlantic during the Second World War. The complement of “The Mighty Hood”, as she was affectionately known, was 1,421. When Briggs fought his way to the surface, he could see only two… Read more »