The 1,000-Ton Nazi Tank That Was Never Built
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 11, 2023
In the midst of the Second World War, the Nazis unveiled prototypes for an array of extraordinary weaponry, spanning colossal aircraft, adva...
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Franz Halder: The Only German to be Decorated by Both Hitler and Kennedy
Anonymous
May 6, 2022
During the Third Riech, Hitler fortified his leadership atop bastions of war, invasion and politics. One of them though dared to traipse acr...
Kugelpanzer: The Mysterious Nazi Ball Tank
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 25, 2022
When the Soviet Union invaded Manchuria in 1945 after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the Red Army recovered a strange vehicle from the pos...
Operation Epsilon: When Allied Forces Locked Ten German Scientists Together in a House
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 1, 2022
Near the end of World War 2, the Allied forces arrested ten German scientists who were thought to have worked on Nazi Germany's nuclear ...
The Nazi Gold of Merkers Mine
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 31, 2022
When the advancing Third Army of the United States marched into the captured German town of Merkers-Kieselbach towards the end of World War ...
The Degenerate Art Exhibition of 1937
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 14, 2021
Not everybody gets modern art. From Andy Warhol’s Soup Cans to a banana stuck to the wall , there are plenty of examples from the perplexin...
Anschlussdenkmal: The Forbidden Nazi Memorial
Kaushik Patowary
May 14, 2021
The Anschlussdenkmal, or Anschluss Monument, in the Austrian town of Oberschützen, is a Nazi monument erected to commemorate the bloodless c...
Nazi Amphitheaters
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 28, 2021
Near the summit of a large wooded hill overlooking the town of Heidelberg in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, stands an open-air theater called a...
Hitler’s Monster Railway
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 27, 2021
Hitler’s megalomaniac plans for Germany included a monumental new railway. This railway was supposed to connect the most important cities i...
The Uranium Cubes From a Nazi Nuclear Reactor
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 31, 2020
In the summer of 2013, Physicist Timothy Koeth of University of Maryland received an unexpected gift from one of his friends. It was a small...
Pervitin: The Wonder Drug That Fueled Nazi Germany
Kaushik Patowary
May 25, 2020
When Heinrich Böll, the German writer and Nobel laureate, was a young man in his twenties, like many able-bodied youths of his time, he jo...
Hessy Levinsons Taft: The Jewish Woman Who Was Hitler’s “Perfect Aryan Baby”
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 24, 2020
Hessy Levinsons Taft, a retired chemistry professor at St. John's University, New York, has an amusing story to tell. When she was only ...
The Other Anne Franks: 10 Holocaust Diaries You Haven’t Read
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 29, 2019
Anne Frank wasn’t the only teenager who lost her childhood to war. Thousands of children and teenagers across Europe found their freedoms c...
Syndrome K: The Fake Disease That Saved Lives
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 20, 2019
In the fall of 1943, as German soldiers began rounding up Jews in Italy and deporting them by the thousands to concentration camps, a myster...
Stolpersteine: The ‘Stumbling Stones’ of Holocaust Victims
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 8, 2019
With hundreds of things to see in Berlin, few tourists pay attention to what lies under their feet. The barely four inch by four inch blocks...
Schwerer Gustav: The World’s Biggest Gun Ever Built
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 19, 2018
Hitler sure had some grand ideas—from mass murdering Jews and conquering Europe, to rebuilding Berlin and draining the Mediterranean sea . ...
Project Riese: The Secret Nazi Tunnels in Poland
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 17, 2018
Eighty kilometers to the south of Wroclaw, underneath Poland’s oldest mountain range, the Owl Mountains, lies a massive underground complex ...
The Cathedral of Light
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 23, 2017
Every year, the Nazi Party used to hold large annual rallies in Nuremberg, which was at that time the center of the German Reich. These rall...
The Schwerbelastungskörper And Hitler’s Grand Plans For Berlin
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 16, 2016
On the corner of Dudenstrasse and General-Pape-Strasse in Berlin, between the S-Bahn tracks and a housing estate, stands a massive cylindric...
Memorial to The Murdered Jews of Europe
Kaushik Patowary
May 26, 2016
One of the most impressive and controversial memorial to the Holocaust is located near Brandenburg Gate, in the Friedrichstadt neighborhood ...
