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The Nazis Fought the Original War on Christmas
As they rose to power, party leaders sought to redefine the holiday to suit their own political needs
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Austria Will Seize the Home Where Hitler Was Born
The government doesn’t want the apartment complex turning into a Neo-Nazi shrine
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How the British Cleverly Diverted Nazi Missiles
Operation Double Cross was the British response to the threat of Nazi V2 rockets. It involved relaying bogus information about British targets
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How Journalists Covered the Rise of Mussolini and Hitler
Reports on the rise of fascism in Europe were not the American media’s finest hour
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The Nazi Engineer Who Created the First Ballistic Missile
Wernher Von Braun became interested in space flight from an early age. This lead him to develop of one of the Nazi’s most devastating weapons
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Reclaiming Nazi-Looted Art Is About to Get Easier
HEAR Act removes legal loopholes that prevented victims of Nazi art plunder to restore what’s rightfully theirs
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Gate Stolen From Dachau Concentration Camp Recovered in Norway
The metal gate bearing the slogan Arbeit Macht Freiwas recently found outside the city of Bergen
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Why the U.S. Government Brought Nazi Scientists to America After World War II
As the war came to a close, the U.S. government was itching to get ahold of the German wartime technology
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Oskar Schindler’s Factory Will Become a Holocaust Memorial
Long abandoned, the dilapidated factory is where the industrialist put over 1,200 threatened Jews to work during World War II
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A Heroic Mission to Disarm Nazi Snipers Goes Very Wrong
Two British commandos impulsively storm a Nazi-occupied warehouse on the Norwegian island of Vaagso
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An Artist Is Building a Parthenon of Banned Books
More than 100,000 books will become a monument to intellectual freedom in Germany next year
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Why We Call the Axis Powers the Axis Powers
On this day in 1936, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini declared an axis between Berlin and Rome, coining a term that would be used by both sides in WWII
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American Scientists Took the First Photo of Earth From Space Using Nazi Rockets
70 years ago, researchers at White Sands Missile Base strapped a movie camera to a V2 rocket to get a bird’s-eye view of our planet
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Why Churchill Approved a Risky Mission on a Nazi Stronghold
Churchill knew he needed a very public military success to boost morale back home
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When Curious George Made a Daring Escape From the Nazis
The authors of the children’s book series fled wartime France with the manuscript tied to their bikes
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How Virtual Reality Is Helping Prosecute Nazi War Criminals
A new, detailed 3D simulation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp is helping prosecutors build stronger cases against these still-living Nazis
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The Daring Plan to Steal Nazi Radar Technology
A British parachute regiment set off toward Bruneval on the northern coast of occupied France. Their mission: to steal German radar secrets
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The New Deal Origins of Homeland Security
During FDR’s administration, the First Lady and the Mayor of New York clashed over guns, butter and American liberalism
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Harvard Just Launched a Fascinating Resource All About Bauhaus
The newly digitized collection is as ambitious as the art school it documents
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Use the Phrase “Polish Death Camps” in Poland and You May Go to Jail
Soon, saying that Nazi death camps were Polish could earn you three years in prison
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