There was a common saying in Germany in the 1930s, "Lieber Gott, mach mich dumm, damit ich nicht nach Dachau kumm" (Dear God, make me dumb, that I might not…
Just to let you know that I do have some criteria for this. Bond character names are excluded because they're supposed to be silly, and I've limited myself to one…
This'll be brief, since we don't actually know each other at all. But I've noted with some interest your effort to sever the sister city relationship you have with my…
As with many other things during the 1930s, the Nazi effort to bring the arts under their control was hamstrung by the turf wars that various state and party organs…
My books, and my writing in general, tends to go to dark places. Dismantle the Sun was all about cancer and loss. Summer of Long Knives is a tour through Hitler's morally insane…
According to the International Business Tribune, the Nazis ran a school for SS brides: Documents found in Germany’s Federal Archive uncovered a program designed to turn young women into perfect…
The Kriminalpolitzei, known as Kripo, was the German equivalent of the British CID. It began in Prussia in the 1790s with six plainclothes detectives tasked to investigate serious crimes. Over the 19th…
Because the building of a pure, highly populous Aryan racial community was central to the Nazi gospel, the Nazis were obsessed with driving women out of the professions and into…