Nazism and Conspiracy Theory
Our lords and masters became our lords and masters through conspiracy...and the odd murder. The only way they can justify that to themselves, since they don't want to think of…
The Wannsee Conference
Yesterday wasn't just Martin Luther King Day. It was also 51st anniversary of the Wannsee Conference. A lot of people lazily describe this event as the meeting at which the…
The Goebbels Diaries
The quote in the last post from Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels on the Louis/Schmeling fight was one I remembered from The Goebbels Experiment, a documentary made by First Run Features (who also…
From Kripo to SiPo, the Nazification of German Detectives
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…
Wilhelm Frick: The Man Who Nazified Germany
Frick was many things to the Nazi party. As one of their earliest members of parliament he drafted legislation which would eventually become the Nuremberg Laws. Frick was also the…
Reinhard Heydrich: The Young Evil God of Death
Like all the most ambitious people, Reinhard Heydrich was a collector of titles: SS Obergruppenfuehrer, Head of the SD, Head of the Prussian Gestapo, Head of Gestapo for the Reich,…