Poland will seek the arrest and extradition of a 98-year-old native of Lutsk (Ukraine), who lives in Minnesota. Michael Karkok (Karkots Mihajlo) is suspected of giving the order to kill 44 Poles during the Second World War, rtvi.com reports. Requesting an arrest warrant for Michael Karkok of Minneapolis ...
Under cover of the night, the family huddled at the cattle carriages to escape the Nazi army heading towards their hometown of Nalchik. It was 1942. Polina Davydova's father returned from the war due to injury and could only move on crutches. Family…
Brünnhilde Pomsel, now 105, was one of six secretaries who worked in the reception area next to Joseph Goebbels's office, where she said there was a carefree atmosphere. “In Goebbels’ office, I basically did nothing except type on...
In the archives of the Russian Ministry of Defense in Podolsk, pages from the diary of Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler, one of the organizers of the Holocaust, who stood at the head of the machine of terror of the Third Reich, were discovered. The records, which were considered missing since the end of the war, date back to 1938, 1943 and 1944...
Among 11 million confidential documents from the database of the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca, a large number of stories were discovered related to the use of offshore companies to register works of art. Data from the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), called the Panama Papers, continues...
In Serbia, a law came into force according to which the property of Jews expropriated by the Nazis and the Belgrade authorities during the Second World War will be transferred to Jewish organizations. According to a law passed by the Serbian parliament in February, the Federation of Jewish municipalities of Serbia will be returned by the authorities about three ...
On the eve of the 170th anniversary of the founding of the largest American news agency Associates Press (AP), The Guardian published a lengthy article about the study of the German historian Gariet Scharnberg, dedicated to the work of this agency in Nazi Germany. As Scharnberg notes, AR was the only Western agency, whose offices remained ...
French historians suspected the legendary Coco Chanel of having links with the Nazis during the Second World War. The name of the world famous fashion designer and founder of the Chanel brand is reportedly featured in archival documents from German intelligence services. In archival materials studied by historians, indicating thousands of people, ...
A certain Hubert Z., a 95-year-old ex-orderly at the Nazi death camp Auschwitz (Auschwitz), will stand trial in Germany on charges of complicity in the murder of 3 people during World War II. The former non-commissioned officer of the SS sanitary team, according to the investigation, served ...
A technical error led to a scandal in the town of Ivanteevka near Moscow. The designers, developing the project for the 70th anniversary of the Victory, placed a banner with the patriotic signature "They fought for the Motherland" and a photograph of the crew of soldiers of the German fascist army, members of the crew of the Junkers bomber. In the advertising agency that placed the banner ...