Kindertransport’s complex legacy: saving children from the Nazis while leaving their families behind: When 200 unaccompanied child refugees arrived in Harwich, Essex, in early December 1938, they did so through a new visa-waiver scheme. These children from Berlin were escaping Nazi persecution, and eventually more than 10,000 children – mostly from Jewish families – would …
How the Nazis tried to obliterate a Czech village – and British miners helped stopped them: The village of Lidice, located a few miles outside the Czechoslovak capital Prague, was the site of a paroxysm of vindictive, pitiless Nazi violence. On the night of June 9 1942, SS guards attempted to completely obliterate the village …
Young Nazis: how I uncovered the close ties between British private schools and Hitler’s Germany: Pupils from a German 'Napola' at Ballenstedt before a football game with a visiting side from an English public school. Author provided In spring 1936, teenage schoolboy – and later war hero – Dick Hargreaves was given the chance to …
South Africa in the news: Pro-Palestine mob brandish anti-Semitic banners comparing Israel to Nazis: Thousands called for an end to ‘British complicity in Israel’s war crimes’ during the rally outside Downing Street – which was organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC).: “South Africa” – BingNews Sir David Attenborough to address world leaders as G7 summit …
Nora Waln: Quaker journalist whose memoir tried to understand the Nazis: Nora Waln lived in Germany through the rise of the Nazi Party, leaving shortly before Kristallnacht. Everett Collection (with Amazon image inset) “I have striven to give a clear, true, and balanced picture”, wrote Nora Waln in the account of her years in the …
Papa Johns requests Nazis refrain from buying its pizzas: In wake of neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer's endorsement of Papa Johns, the restaurant chain is asking hate groups not to buy its pizzas. In wake of neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer's endorsement of Papa Johns, the restaurant chain is asking hate groups not to buy …
Garlic chocolate and exploding animal poop: Bizarre weapons the Brits used to fight the Nazis: For as important as the Bren gun was to the Allies' success in the Second World War, we must never forget garlic chocolate. The Supermarine Spitfire was a single seat fighter aircraft used by many Allied countries during the Second …
British UFO expert found dead in Poland was ‘poisoned by nazis’ from space: The YouTube clip has sparked fears the UFO expert could have been targeted by the “Fourth Reich” as he revealed his beliefs. Mystery surrounds the death of the dad-of-two amid claims he could have been killed by a sinister force because of …