Holding two Ph.D.s, Mengele’s promising career as a scientist became his grotesque researches into twins and eye color.

With the ceremonial establishment of the permanent combat brigade in Lithuania, the German government under Chancellor ...

A Summerfield resident calls out two recent letter writers who he contends went overboard with their Nazi Germany comparisons.

The goal of exterminating every single Jew in Europe began in earnest with mobile killing units, Einsatzgruppen, prowling their newly invaded territory for Jews. They were to be shot, or asphyxiated, ...

It names Helmut Oberlander, a member of the Nazi Einsatzgruppen death squads during the Second World War. The Canadian government spent years trying to strip him of his citizenship, but he died at ...

There is a famous image from the Second World War known as the ‘Ivanhorod Einsatzgruppen’ photograph. Taken in 1942, just outside Ivanhorod, a village in German-occupied Ukraine, it shows a ...

In the 2024 Oscar-winning film The Zone of Interest, director Jonathan Glazer depicts the everyday family life of Rudolf Höss, the Nazi commandant of Auschwitz, his wife Hedwig and their five ...

Among them were an estimated 1.3 million massacred by the Einsatzgruppen; approximately a million were murdered at Auschwitz-Birkenau alone. Many survivors had nowhere to go. Poland had Europe’s ...

The Holocaust continues to haunt our politics. But slurring our opponents as Hitlers is not the way to defeat them. By Andrew Marr This starts with an excessively fair-minded, appallingly nice ...

Along with Einsatzgruppen paramilitary death squads, Auschwitz was the single biggest killing machine during the Holocaust. Approximately 1.3 million people were held in Auschwitz over its four ...

The Nazis also dispatched mobile death squads called Einsatzgruppen which mowed down one million people in what is known as the 'Holocaust by bullets', dumping them into mass graves. They were ...

They also provided occasional support to the Einsatzgruppen, the special task forces that systematically murdered Jews, Roma and communists. In this early phase in the war of extermination ...