The book had long lingered there. Known, but not acknowledged. Sitting on her father’s bookshelf for decades after the war in Western Europe had culminated in an Allied victory on May 8, 1945. Except ...
To Hitler, Lieut. General Karl Wolff was the very model of the Aryan SS general. To Himmler, his immediate superior, he was affectionately known as “Wolfie.” But to American intelligence officers at ...
It would be easy to cast all blame for the holocaust on one man, Adolf Hitler; the leader of Nazi Germany and the man whose face has now come to personify true evil. However, no one man could truly ...
Regarding “Lives in Captivity” by Howard Schneider (Bookshelf, March 26): William Geroux’s book “The Fifteen” describes a July 1944 incident in which a prisoner-of-war interpreter defied a German ...
Deep in northwestern Westphalia, Germany, stands a twelfth-century castle conceived by Heinrich Himmler, leader of the paramilitary Schutzstaffel, as a kind of “Camelot” for the triumphal knights of ...
John Fletcher Sisson (middle), shown here in Germany in 1945, served in the 4th Infantry Division during WWII and returned home with Heinrich Himmler's personal copy of "Mein Kampf."(Photos courtesy ...