What’s in a Name? How about World Domination.
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In recent a post I was asked about Hitler’s real name. Was it Hitler or Schicklgruber? The difference is significant politically. The former millions were able to yell in…
In Memory of an Astonishingly Courageous Man
In Memory of an Astonishingly Courageous Man David Lewis “The death of one man is a tragedy,” Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin is said to have told U.S. ambassador Averill Harriman. “The death of millions is…
CHRISTMAS ON SPREE IN THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC
On Christmas day, in 1920s Berlin, most people enjoyed the bleak festivities on ersatz everything. Men wore pink and blue dickies as substitutes for shirts. Christmas cakes were made from…
BRAVE DIPLOMAT WHO SAVED LIFE OF HITLER’S DOCTOR
In October 1918, a gas blinded lance-corporal named Adolf Hitler was admitted to a small mental hospital in the Pomeranian town of Pasewalk. There he was examined by Dr Karl…
DIE WEISSE ROSE -THE WHITE ROSE
In 1943, a group of Munich University founded the White Rose Movement as a protest against Nazi tyranny. It cost them their lives. The instigator of the movement was a young…
WAS HITLER A MASTER HYPNOTIST? By DAN JONES
In his 1943 book, Hypnotism, psychologist Professor George Hoben Estabrooks described Hitler as ‘the world’s best hypnotist.’ He went on to describe the five components of his approach: Emotional contagion…
FROM MEDICINE TO MURDER AND TREATMENT TO TYRANY
During the First World War, German doctors did their best to treat the thousands of soldiers broken mentally, rather than physically, by the horrors in which they were obliged to…
WELCOME TO SIN CITY – BERLIN AFTER 1918
The years following the signings of the armistice in 1918 were desperate ones for the German economy and its defeated people. There was political unrest, strikes, hyperinflation, and appalling street…
CRYSTAL NIGHT – 80 YEARS AGO TODAY
Between the 9th and 10th of November, eighty-years-ago today, vast quantities of glass littered Germany’s streets after Nazi smashed Jewish homes, stores and synagogues. This became known as Kristallnacht (in Yiddish…
THE LAST ALLIED SOLDIER KILLED IN 1918
On the morning of November 11th, 1918, American soldiers were approaching a German machine gun post outside the village of Chaumont-devant-Damvillers in Lorrains. Against the orders of his friend, Sergeant Ernest Powell,…