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‘Hitler’s hatred of the scientist had intensified. There was a price on his head’: the tragic story of Robert Einstein, Albert’s cousin

After the famous physicist fled Germany in 1933, his cousin Robert moved his family to Italy, where they thought they had found safety. Then, the day before liberation, Nazis smashed down their front…

22 days ago

One was violated with a Kalashnikov, another raped repeatedly after seeing her husband shot. Now, the thousands of forgotten men, women and even child victims of Russia's Rape Machine bravely reveal their horrific ordeal

Halyna was at home alone when the Russians came knocking, saying they were 'looking for Nazis'. The 62-year-old widow was ordered at gunpoint to run around...

25 days ago

‘Muscle-flexing or urgent threat?’ How Trump’s assault on culture echoes the Nazis targeting ‘degenerate art’

As the US president hangs a fist-pumping portrait of himself in the White House and seeks to purge museums of ‘improper ideology’, our writer finds chilling parallels at a new show about the Nazis ri…

28 days ago

38 Londres Street by Philippe Sands review – Pinochet and the Nazis

A human rights lawyer skilfully gathers the threads that link the former Chilean dictator to a fugitive SS officer

Augusto Pinochet expected London to be a hospitable city when he arrived there in Oct…

32 days ago

Children of Radium by Joe Dunthorne review – complicity, courage and cowardice examined in a slippery marvel

The Submarine author employs that novel’s warmth and wit in his investigation into whether his great-grandfather knowingly helped to make chemical weapons for the Nazis

Joe Dunthorne tells us he orig…

33 days ago

Josephine Baker: the superstar turned spy who fought the Nazis and for civil rights

Book highlights performer’s wartime contribution and how she used her fame to provide cover and promote equal rights

She was, according to US wartime counter-intelligence officer Lt Paul Jensen, “our …

35 days ago

Fateful final mission of WWII bomber that was shot down by Nazis with one survivor - as it is found at bottom of Aegean Sea 82 years later

Leslie Norman Row, from Gravesend, Kent, was flying a mission over the Mediterranean when his Baltimore Bomber was attacked

41 days ago

Henry Gibbs painting looted by Nazis to be returned to Jewish art dealer’s family

Samuel Hartveld’s great-grandchildren to welcome back stolen 17th-century painting that was sold to Tate Britain

A 17th-century painting by Henry Gibbs that was looted by the Nazis and has been in the…

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