Hitler’s private albums sold for 10.000
A World War II veteran from France, Paul Gerbi, has auctioned four photo albums from Adolf Hitler...
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A history blog with the latest from the pastOskar Schindler remembered in Hildesheim
On Friday a statue was inaugurated in Hildesheim, in remembrance of Oskar Schindler. Schindler lived in Hildesheim from 1971 until his death in the 9th October of 1973...
Munich art-treasure should be open to public, says Bavarian minister of Justice
The soap on the Munich art treasure continues...
Making money with Lenin
The city council of Ulyanovsk, the birthplace of the Russian revolutionary leader Lenin (1870-1924), plans to create a national memorial to the Soviet Union...
The power of publicity. Gurlitt will get back his paintings
For more than a week the whole art-world marveled as the German authorities claimed they had recovered 1500 masterpieces...
Who owns the Munich masterpieces?
As DisputedPast reported, a huge amount of priceless masterpieces was found in Munich, Germany, last week. Since then, authorities give few to no information regarding the art...
A grim message on Armistice Day
Today exactly 95 years ago, the first Armistice Day was celebrated. This day marked the end of the Great War, or the First World War...
‘Romantic kristallnacht’ and ‘Stolpersteine’. The Kristallnacht remembered
Exactly 75 years ago, on the 9th and 10th of November 1938, the Nazis conducted a furious attacks on Jews. They set fire to their shops and synagogues, destroyed their homes...
Dressed to kill. Fashion in the nazi-era
It is a well-known fact that Hugo Boss designed the SS-uniform, but how people dressed in Third Reich is not a much debated topic...
Sensational discovery: 1500 long-lost masterpieces (e.g. Picasso, Matisse) found
An 80-year old resident of the German city of Munich had 1500 masterpieces secretly stockpiled in his apartment...
NSA’s long history of illegal eavesdropping
As Edward Snowden showed the world to what extent the American National Security Agency has been tracking emails and phone-calls, a worldwide public outcry for more privacy protection followed...
Mystery regarding Gestapo-Müller unsolved
Heinrich Müller, one of Hitlers most brutal and sadist nazi’s during the Third Reich, reaches for the headlines once more...