Category: Biography

  • Nazi socialite Marika Rökk was a member of Hitler’s inner circle AND a Sovjet spy

    Nazi socialite Marika Rökk was a member of Hitler’s inner circle AND a Sovjet spy

    Marika Rökk was a Soviet spy during World War II. According to the German newspaper Bild, the famous Hungarian actress was discovered by the German intelligence service as early as 1951. Back then, her role was kept secret. The famous actress Marika Rökk caused a furore in Nazi Germany and would have had an affair…

  • Hitler’s Jewish neighbor publishes diaries

    Hitler’s Jewish neighbor publishes diaries

    Edgar Feuchtwanger lived in Munich, Germany, during the rise and heydays of the nazi-regime, from the early 1930’s to the outbreak of the war in 1939. Munich was the beating heart of the nazi-movement and the Feuchtwanger family was Jewish. To make things worse, the family had an infamous neighbour, none other than the Führer…

  • Read Alfred Rosenberg’s diary online

    Read Alfred Rosenberg’s diary online

    It was quite a media-buzz when the American government announced that the diary of Alfred Rosenberg was found. Rosenberg, one of the top-nazi’s from Hitler’s Third Reich, was responsible for many of the criminals conducted by Germany. Speculations about the content of his long-lost diary were abundant, and DisputedPast went along with them. As it…

  • Today is Willy Brandt’s 100th birthday

    Today is Willy Brandt’s 100th birthday

    As mayor of West Berlin, as Foreign Minister and as Chancellor of Germany, Willy Brandt (1913-1992) changed the Federal Republic of Germany (BDR) like no other politician. Brandt was born in Lübeck on the 18th of December 1913 as an illegitimate child by the name of Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm. The name under which he…

  • Today the last member of the French royal family was buried

    Today the last member of the French royal family was buried

    Today, the remains of an unknown woman are buried again, after they were exhumed two months ago. They were dug up by a group of scientists who wanted to solve a more than 200-year-old mystery: was this woman of royal blood? A mysterious noble lady grips Hildburghausen A mysterious woman arrived in Hildburghausen in 1807.…

  • The secrets of Rosenbergs diary

    The secrets of Rosenbergs diary

    On the 13th of June the long lost diaries of Alfred Rosenberg (1893-1946) were revealed. What may be unveiled in the 400 pages of Rosenberg’s gift to posterity? The finding of the diary is a real treat for historians while the debates on the Second World War are undiminished. Still, the diaries are ‘only’ from…

  • Shakespeare: food hoarder and taxe-dodger

    Shakespeare: food hoarder and taxe-dodger

    The shadowy side of Britain’s well known bard’s personality may have been forgotten for a long time. Widely regarded as the greatest writer in English history, William Shakespeare is mostly know for his sonnets and plays. His historical image is that of a nice, friendly man in everyday life. But a recent study of Aberystwyth…