Amidst all that, an American detachment somehow found itself under siege, holed up in an Austrian castle fighting off waves of SS troops. Their unlikely allies? Members of the Wehrmacht ...

An £8million exhibition chronicling the empire of the SS within the Nazi state opens next month in Germany at the Renaissance castle that was once its spiritual home. Organisers of the exhibition ...

Here's What You Need to Remember: Before the Waffen-SS soldiers attacked the castle, Gangl had managed to phone members of the Austrian resistance in Wörgl, explaining the situation. The ...

But the French prisoners were trapped, as the woods around the castle were full of roaming units of the Waffen SS and Gestapo secret police. The French sent out two prisoners on bicycles to find help.

A museum given the dubious name of 'Naziland' by critics has been opened in the former castle home of SS leader Heinrich Himmler. The 17th century Wewelsburg Castle, near Paderborn in Germany ...

Wewelsburg Castle, once a pseudo-religious sanctum for Hitler's SS, has been shrouded in mystery since 1945. Its echoing crypt and mysterious occult symbols have spawned fantasies of pagan ...

During WW2, German SS leader Heinrich Himmler attempted to turn a Renaissance castle into a headquarters for the Nazis' major paramilitary organisation. Dubbed the 'Centre of the World' by Himmler ...

Wewelsburg Castle, a pseudo-religious sanctum for Hitler's SS, has been a focal point for neo-Nazis ever since 1945. Its echoing crypt and mysterious occult symbols have spawned fantasies of ...