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21 hours ago

The knife wielded by real-life SAS Rogue Heroes soldier against Hitler's troops in WWII

Major Charles 'Pat' Riley, who was played by actor Jacob Ifan in the hit BBC series SAS: Rogue Heroes, carried the weapon on missions against Hitler's forces. It has emerged for sale.

5 days ago

The women who tasted Hitler's food... and feared every meal would be their last: Film inspired by survivor's astonishing testimony shed's light on Nazi dictator's fear of being poisoned

In 2013, 95-year-old Margot Woelk broke decades of silence to claim that she and 15 other women were tasked with eating Hitler's food. New film The Tasters is inspired by her story.

7 days ago

Marcel Ophuls: the unflinching chronicler of France’s suppressed wartime shame

The Sorrow and the Pity punched a hole through France’s self-excusing myths and saw something nastier, shabbier, more political and more human

• Marcel Ophuls dies aged 97

The last great voice of warti…

8 days ago

From nude Harry Potter to a scribbled Hitler: meet the man behind theatre’s most eye-grabbing posters

He created the iconic Phantom of the Opera mask, made Daniel Radcliffe go topless and even had his Führer design banned on the tube. Theatreland’s go-to graphic artist Bob King talks us through his b…

No meat, no beer and hopefully no poison: the curious tale of Hitler’s food tasters

Based on Margot Wölk’s extraordinary account, Silvio Soldini’s film The Tasters sees a group of women seemingly risk their lives with each bite. But does the story add up?

The story is almost too comp…

11 days ago

'Impossible' escape of SAS commando from Hitler's Gestapo revealed after 80 years: How WWII hero killed six Nazi soldiers to make dash for freedom from surrounded farmhouse after blowing up train

Squadron Quartermaster Sergeant John Alcock appeared doomed when nearly 40 enemy troops surrounded the French farmhouse he was hiding in.

12 days ago

13 days ago

The Book of Guilt by Catherine Chidgey review – this dystopia could have been extraordinary

Alternate political realities are compellingly explored in this sinister vision of a children’s home – but the echoes of Ishiguro are just too strong

In 2016 Catherine Chidgey published her fourth nov…

24 days ago

I was Hitler’s neighbour: ‘If he’d known we were Jewish, we’d have been sent to Dachau’

In 1929, Edgar Feuchtwanger was five years old and living with his family in Munich when Adolf Hitler moved into a flat opposite. At first, his parents thought they were safe hiding in plain sight – …

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