After initially joining the German Army as a soldier at the outset of World War II, Dr. Bruno Lohse – an art historian by training – was selected to join the ERR, the Nazi Party agency tasked with ...

A new search engine that allows users to search Nazi party records in order to find out whether their ancestors were card-carrying members has been accessed millions of times since it was launched ...

Questions about what grandparents or great-grandparents did during the Nazi era have often stayed unanswered. Now digital tools are making it easier to look for those answers. Across Germany, people ...

Germany’s new chancellor Friedrich Merz has a history, one that he does not like to highlight. His Opa or grandfather was a Nazi and it is this Nazi past that he is trying to keep extremely quiet ...

Since the end of March, 8.5 million index cards from the Nazi era have been digitised and made freely available ...

Superficially, there are some moderate left-wing analysts claiming that “nazis included socialist as a catchphrase to attract more workers to their political party”, unaware of their own lack of ...

After World War II, Operation Paperclip quietly recruited German scientists to work on its most advanced weapons and space programs—including some who had been active in the Third Reich. The first U.S ...