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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...

25 November 2013 by Jan Huisman

Oskar 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...

24 November 2013 by Jan Huisman

Munich art-treasure should be open to public, says Bavarian minister of Justice

The soap on the Munich art treasure continues...

23 November 2013 by Jan Huisman

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...

20 November 2013 by Jan Huisman

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...

20 November 2013 by Jan Huisman

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...

17 November 2013 by Jan Huisman

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...

11 November 2013 by Jan Huisman

‘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...

09 November 2013 by Jan Huisman

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...

06 November 2013 by Jan Huisman

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...

04 November 2013 by Jan Huisman

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...

02 November 2013 by Jan Huisman

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...

31 October 2013 by Jan Huisman
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