Britain’s collective fight against the Nazis in World War Two saw a third of the population involved in war work. That number included seven million women who performed crucial roles including top secret intelligence gathering, maintaining and flying aircraft and compiling weather reports. Four female veterans have spoken of their experiences in a new documentary, … Read more
Amazon changes its new smartphone app logo after shoppers say it reminds them of a smirking Adolf Hitler Amazon replaced shopping cart symbol with an Amazon box and a piece of tape But combined with a smile-shaped arrow it looked like it could belong to a face Some shoppers saw an uncomfortable resemblance to Hitler’s … Read more
Lord Adonis faces fury after comparing Brexit trade deal to Neville Chamberlain’s pact with HITLER as UK finally prepares to cut ties with the EU at 11pm TONIGHT Boris Johnson’s trade deal with the EU was passed by Parliament late last night Labour’s Lord Adonis caused anger by comparing deal to the 1938 Munich pact … Read more
Hungarian official compares Jewish billionaire and Holocaust survivor George Soros to Hitler, says ‘Europe is his gas chamber’ and slams his donations to liberal causes Hungarian ministerial commissioner Szilard Demeter made the anti-Semitic comments about George Soros in an opinion article on Saturday ‘Europe is George Soros’ gas chamber,’ Demeter wrote. ‘Poison gas flows from … Read more
Creepy waxwork models of the Queen, Henry VIII and even Adolf Hitler go on sale alongside a giant military transport plane as museum shuts down Collectors can buy waxwork models of the Queen, Henry VIII and Hitler A Blackburn Beverley transport aircraft XB259 is also up for sale for £30,000 The elderly owner of the Fort Paull … Read more
Neighbours in the tranquil Oxfordshire village of Great Rollright knew housewife Mrs Burton for the scrumptious taste of her scones in the summer of 1945. But they had no idea she was actually top Soviet spy Ursula Kuczynski, who came close to blowing up Adolf Hitler before Joseph Stalin got cold feet. Kuczynski, code-named Sonya, nearly averted the … Read more
The husband of the conductor in the Proms row is a guitarist for a heavy metal band that tried to release a song about Adolf Hitler. Dalia Stasevska’s husband, 42-year-old Lauri Porra, plays bass for Stratovarius, who have had three number one albums in their native Finland. The offending 2005 track, which the band had … Read more
A family heirloom that survived the Holocaust and escaped the rise of communism has been lost in the post while travelling through customs. The gold pendant was crafted by Vilém Werner, a Jewish Czech, for his niece, Eva Porges and featured her name. The heirloom, believed to have been crafted between 1927 and 1941, was … Read more
A spot-check almost caught out Adolfo Kaminsky. The teenager was clutching an attache case on the Metro in Nazi-occupied Paris when a patrol of the Milice, the vicious French militia who col laborated with the Germans, came sweeping through the train, checking papers, rummaging through bags and making arrests. They were on the hunt for … Read more
A woman has accused Facebook of trying to ‘delete history’ after the social media giant removed colourised images that showed Hitler and prominent Nazi figures from her profile and suspended her account for three days. Russian photo colourist Olga Shirnina from Moscow, Russia, is considered a world expert in transforming historic black and white pictures … Read more