Heinrich Himmler

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Adolf Hitler and Gestapo chief Heinrich Himmler (left) observe a parade of Nazi stormtroopers in 1940. Photograph: Reuters/Corbis
Is it acceptable to use data from Nazi medical experiments?

During the second World War, Nazi medical doctors conducted medical experiments on concentration camp prisoners. This work was extremely cruel, the pr(...)

Prof Ludwig Mühlhausen was a professor of Celtic studies at Berlin University and a Nazi spy. Photograph: BBC
The ‘enthusiastic’ Nazi who went to Donegal to learn Irish - and spy - in 1937

It could be a story from a spy novel: the German scholar who claimed to be learning Irish in Donegal but who was instead an “enthusiastic” Nazi secret(...)

Former prisoners attend a wreath-laying ceremony in front of the Death Wall during ceremonies marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the former Nazi concentration camp on Monday. Photograph: Andrzej Grygiel/EPA
Auschwitz anniversary: ‘I probably saw 300,000 Jewish people perish right in front of me’

Exactly 75 years after the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, 100 elderly survivors gather one last time here on Monday: to remember the dead of the fo(...)

Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, which is owned by JAB.
The Nazi past of the people who bring you Krispy Kreme

Emilie Landecker was 19 when she went to work for Benckiser, a German company that made industrial cleaning products and also took pride in cleansing (...)

US finds long-lost diary of top Nazi leader and Hitler aide
  • US
  • June 11, 2013, 01:00

The US government has recovered 400 pages from the long-lost diary of Alfred Rosenberg, a confidant of Adolf Hitler who played a central role in the e(...)