Cat Lewis said that singing about how Britons would ‘never be slaves’ during Rule Britannia was akin to Nazis shouting about how they would ‘never be forced into a gas chamber’ A Songs of Praise producer who compared singing Rule Britannia to Nazis singing about gas chambers has doubled down on he attack and called … Read more
The wife of the US Consul General in Chengdu has faced backlash in China after web users accused her of comparing her departure from the city earlier this year to Jews escaping from the Nazis during the Second World War. Beijing has shut down Washington’s Chengdu office in tit-for-tat retaliation after Donald Trump closed down … Read more
A 93-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard has been spared jail after being found guilty of accessory to 5,230 murders. Bruno Dey was handed a two-year suspended sentence on Thursday by a court in Hamburg. In what could be one of the last such cases involving surviving Nazi guards, Dey was convicted for his role … Read more
Ex-RAF pilot, 80, crashes his hand built replica WWII Focke Wulf 190 into a field after mistaking a tractor track for the grass runway Barry Conway, 80, was attempting to land his replica Focke Wulf 190 in a field The hand built aircraft flipped over after hitting a rut on caused by a tractor A … Read more
Stalin’s army invaded a Nazi airfield towards the end of World War II, killing a number of German soldiers and now archaeologist have found their final resting place. A mass grave has been unearthed in Poland that contains skeletal remains of 18 paratroopers who met their demise in 1945. The pit also revealed weapons etched, … Read more
The final year of fighting during the Second World War as Allied troops liberated Europe and ground down the Nazi war machine has been documented in newly-colourised photos. The images chart the advance of Russian, British and American forces from both east and west as they pushed Hitler’s forces back with help from resistance groups … Read more
Winston Churchill, Franklin D Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin came ‘appallingly close’ to assassination during a top secret summit in 1943 in Tehran, a new book has revealed. The three world leaders met in person in the Iranian capital – despite the city being central to a major Nazi intelligence ring. German intelligence agents discovered advance … Read more
Twenty eight tonnes of Nazi gold worth more than £1billion may have been traced to the grounds of a palace in Poland after the location was mentioned in an SS diary. The stash of gold bars, jewellery and coins is believed to be sitting 200ft down at the bottom of a destroyed well shaft in … Read more
Fake ID papers used by Nazi SS leader Heinrich Himmler to try and escape Germany at the end of World War Two have been unearthed 75 years after his death. The fake document said Himmler was a sergeant named Heinrich Hizinger and was vital to his capture just a few weeks after the end of … Read more
The site of a Nazi mass execution known as death valley is to be excavated after researchers discovered bullet shells, clothing buttons and medal fragments. The find was made on the outskirts of Chojnice, a town in northern Poland, after researchers from the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences carried … Read more