Few pictures published during the Second World War remain as striking, all these years later, as John Florea’s 1945 portrait of an American prisoner of war named Joe Demler. Photographed at a Nazi prison camp in Limburg, Germany, the figure in the photo is so emaciated that Demler was quickly dubbed “the human skeleton” when… Read more »
Armin Dieter Lehmann was born in 23-May 1928 in Waldtrudering, a borough of Munich. Lehmann received his education at Elisabet Gymnasium in Breslau during World War II, and The Journalism School in Munich after the war. Lehmann told : Hitler seized power before I was five years old. It was not my choice to grow up under the form of government in which absolute… Read more »
Hilmar Wäckerle, born 24-11-1899 in Forchheim, was a commander in the Waffen-SS of Nazi Germany during World War II. He was the first commandant of Dachau concentration camp. The son of a Munich notary public, Wäckerle was sent to the Bavarian Army officer school at the age of 14 in order to pursue his chosen career. Having completed his three years as a cadet he was… Read more »
Hitler refused to marry his blonde mistress, Eva Braun, says Arthur Kannenberg. Kannenberg was Hitler’s butler at Berchtesgaden. He and his wife, Frieda, who was one of Hitler’s housekeepers, were captured on 01 June 1945. Kannenberg told the Herald-Tribune correspondent that Hitler refused to marry Eva Braun because he was “spiritually wedded to the German people.”… Read more »
Johann Günther Lütjens (25 May 1889 – 27 May 1941) was a German Admiral whose military service spanned more than thirty years and two world wars. Lütjens is best known for his actions during World War II and his command of the battleship Bismarck during its foray into the Atlantic Ocean in 1941. In its aftermath, the episode entered into naval legend. Lütjens born on 25 May 1889,… Read more »