The German National Socialist politician Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945) commanded the SS, Hitler's elite troops, and was head of the Gestapo. He was perhaps the most powerful and ruthless man in Nazi Ge...
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Heinrich Himmler headed the elite Nazi Party military unit known as the Schutzstaffel (SS), or protection staff, even before Adolf Hitler's seizure of power in Germany in 1933. A ruthless and efficien...
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Heinrich Himmler
Heinrich Himmler was a mass murder just like Adolf Hitler. Himmler was considered Hitler's right-hand man. Himmler was not known early in his life, but later on he met Hitler and th...
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Heinrich Himmler was one of the most influential men in World War II and in the Holocaust. Himmler was only second in command to Hitler. He was put in many high military positions before becoming H...
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Warsaw (dpa) - The controversial Danish satirical group Surrend
has posted a Polish-language website which puts the late Polish-born
Pope John Paul II in hell, along side Na...
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Neuengamme, Germany (dpa) - The abuse of women prisoners as
prostitutes in German concentration camps during the Nazi period has
received too little attention in previous st...
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Today is Wednesday, May 23, the 143rd day of 2007. There are 222 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On May 23, 1934, bank robbers Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker were shot to death i...
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New photographs of Adolf Hitler taken before World War II show the Nazi leader arriving at a concert dressed in tails, receiving flowers from two blond girls at a music festival and getting out of ...
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Serbian police said Monday they had detained 56 neo-Nazis who defied a ban and demonstrated to demand the contested province of Kosovo remain part of the Serbia. The arrests came after clashes brok...
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The German government on Friday started construction of an exhibition center at the site where the Gestapo, leaders of the SS and other top officials in Adolf Hitler's police state presided over Na...
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Stuttgart, Germany (dpa) - A German museum has announced plans for
16 screenings of the ultimate Nazi hate movie, Jud Suess, as part of
an exhibition picking apart how Nazi ...
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As the Third Reich headed to defeat in World War II, the Germans burned millions of records to cover up history's worst genocide. But the fraction that survived was enough to make up the largest Na...
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As the Third Reich headed to defeat in World War II, the Germans burned millions of records to cover up history's worst genocide. But the fraction that survived was enough to make up the largest Na...
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Israel's official Holocaust memorial and museum has unveiled the private archives of one of the most contentious Jewish figures from the Holocaust era in an attempt to exonerate the man's tarnished...
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