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Jerusalem: The man who hanged Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in 1962, Shalom Nagar, has died, Israeli media reported on Wednesday. Adolf Eichmann, one of the main architects of the “Final Solution” aimed at wiping out Europe’s Jews, was tried by an Israeli court in April 1961 after being abducted from Argentina. He was hanged […]
The Lebensborn Naming Ceremony from Master Race by Catrine Clay and Michael Leapman (1995). When I first learned about Hochland Home, the setting for The Sunflower House, it seemed like the stuff of dystopian science fiction. Few people knew about this state-run baby factory, created to perpetuate Hitler’s so-called Master Race. In retrospect, that isn’t […]
Doch, man kann schon sagen, dass Adolf Hitler inzwischen röntgenartig durchleuchtet worden ist von Literatur und Wissenschaft. Neben den einschlägigen Geschichtsbüchern gibt es solche, die die Wegstrecken Hitlers mit Auto, Bahn und Flieger von seiner Geburt bis zu seinem Tod nachzeichnen, sämtliche Begegnungen, seine Arztbesuche, seine Auftritte und Reden sowieso, seine Speisepläne (ab und zu […]
Banknotes awaiting distribution during the 1923 German hyperinflation. Source: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-R1215-506 / CC-BY-SA 3.0, available here. Early life of Adolf Hitler A complex history creates the foundation of a man who was able to order the deaths, either directly or indirectly, of over 60 million people. Hitler was a frustrated painter and a vegetarian. […]