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Eric Jan Hanussen was a magician, clairvoyant, astrologer, illusionist, hypnotist, opportunist and charlatan. A multimillionaire businessman, he became Hitler’s personal Svengali, coaching him in showmanship, teaching him to hypnotise the…

At this distance in time, and with our knowledge of the slaughterhouses that First War battlefields rapidly became, it is hard understand the universal joy with which the war’s outbreak,…

The story is told of a British general who, while out riding with his staff, came across naked soldiers bathing in a river. Turning to one of his officers, the…

Within months, of the outbreak of WW1, the hospital wards of all the combat nations were filled with soldiers who, although physically uninjured, were blind, deaf, dumb, or mute, paralysed,…

  Thanks to the home movies of Hitler’s long-time mistress, Eva Braun, millions are familiar with the private face of Adolf Hitler. His private voice is, however, much less well-known.…

In July, 1961, a year after the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem, Yale psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted one of psychology’s most famous, and controversial, experiments.  You may well have…

For more than a decade, as Gruppenführer and Lieutenant-General of Police, Heinrich Müller was one of the most powerful policemen in Germany and Occupied Europe. Yet today he remains a…

    <script async src=”https://widget.websitevoice.com/EcCuwqXr1AnMjjS-PpwDiw”></script> <script> window.wvData=window.wvData||{};function wvtag(a,b){wvData[a]=b;} wvtag(‘id’, ‘EcCuwqXr1AnMjjS-PpwDiw’); wvtag(‘language’, ‘en-GB’); </script> When people talk about the Nazi genocides the focus of attention is, naturally, on the 6 million…

  In the late spring of 1913, Hitler abruptly left Vienna for Munich.  His rapid departure was caused by a fear of being imminently conscripted into the Austro – Hungarian…

  As their thousand-year Reich collapsed in flames and around them, senior Nazis were faced with four stark choices. They could kill themselves, like Heinrich Himmler and Joseph Goebbels; be…