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Explorers believe the Nazis stashed an armored train full of gold and weapons in tunnels in Poland’s Owl Mountains

August 17, 2016

Children salute the American flag in 1915.

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The Rules About How to Address the U.S. Flag Came About Because No One Wanted to Look Like a Nazi

During the National Anthem, Americans are asked to put their right hands over their hearts. But why?

August 12, 2016

The man who designed the Nazi concentration camps switched easily between recording domestic life and mass murder

August 3, 2016

One of the board games in the collections of the Museum of World War II

How the Nazis “Normalized” Anti-Semitism by Appealing to Children

A new museum and exhibit explore the depths of the hatred toward Europe’s Jews

June 27, 2016

A women’s ring made of gold and a necklace was carefully wrapped in a piece of canvas

May 23, 2016

Rudolf Hess, at right, was a Nazi leader when he flew to Scotland in May of 1941.

Will We Ever Know Why Nazi Leader Rudolf Hess Flew to Scotland in the Middle of World War II?

The remarkable tale of insanity, espionage, and conspiracies remains unanswered after 75 years

May 10, 2016

Were American-run newspapers during World War II full of news by Nazis?

New research suggests a backscratch agreement that traded access for control

April 1, 2016

“Grenzzaun halbe” referenced the country’s debate on whether or not to seal its borders

March 31, 2016

Tom Randle plays Macheath, or “Mack the Knife,” in a production of Benjamin Britten’s The Beggar’s Opera.

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The Strange Career of “Mack the Knife”

As old Macheath is inducted into the National Recording Registry, here’s a look back at his long musical life

March 24, 2016

Spared From the Holocaust by His Countrymen, a Jewish Refugee Hopes That Denmark Can Regain Its Humanity

Leo Goldberger will never forget how his fellow Danes kept him safe, but the reaction to today’s refugee crisis gives him pause about his former homeland

March 16, 2016

This could have been Britain during World War II, but Operation Bernhard was foiled after the Allies learned about the plan.

The Nazis Planned to Bomb Britain With Forged Bank Notes

But Operation Bernhard never made it rain

March 1, 2016

Up to 925,000 Jews and Romani were murdered at Treblinka, a Nazi extermination camp near Warsaw, Poland.

Samuel Willenberg devoted the rest of his life to honoring those murdered at the camp

February 22, 2016

Henri Matisse's "Woman Sitting in an Armchair," is one of the paintings stolen by Nazis that will be returned to its rightful owner.

A task force took two years and nearly $2 million to investigate more than 1,200 pieces found in a Munich apartment

January 18, 2016

Railway tracks lead into a dark underground shaft in a former mine in Walbrzych, Poland near where amateur treasure hunters say they have found a lost Nazi train full of gold.

After months of searching, experts say rumors of a forgotten treasure are just that

December 17, 2015

The U.S. Government Turned Away Thousands of Jewish Refugees, Fearing That They Were Nazi Spies

In a long tradition of “persecuting the refugee,” the State Department and FDR claimed that Jewish immigrants could threaten national security

November 18, 2015

Women observe anti-Semitic graffiti in Vienna in a film shot by an American in 1938.

Watch Rarely Seen Footage of Life in Nazi Austria, Thanks to a New Video Archive

The Ephemeral Films Project offers the public a chance to see what Jews experienced during the Anschluss

November 9, 2015

"Adolf Hitler Strasse" wasn't a street in Germany—it was a street at Camp Siegfried, a Nazi summer camp located in Yaphank, New York on Long Island during the 1930s.

In parts of Yaphank, laws require homeowners to be of German descent

October 22, 2015

Polish culture minister is “99 percent sure” the train has been found

September 1, 2015

The Most Loved and Hated Novel About World War I

An international bestseller, Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front was banned and burned in Nazi Germany

June 16, 2015

Copies of Hitler's Mein Kampf are displayed at a German museum. The controversial manifesto has been banned in Germany since the end of World War II.

Rival versions of the book once vied for American readers

June 9, 2015