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HH2408 De la cima del lujo nazi a la viudez y el aislamiento: la inquietante historia de Emmy Göring En abril de 1945, mientras Alemania se desmoronaba bajo las bombas, Hermann Göring dio una orden que resumía de forma brutal todo un mundo que estaba a punto de desaparecer. Carinhall, su gigantesca residencia al norte de … Read more
El día en que el líder fascista de Hungría vio la horca: la caída de Ferenc Szálasi Budapest, 12 de marzo de 1946. En el patio del tribunal de la calle Markó número 27 había una estructura que dieciocho meses antes habría resultado inconcebible. Una horca. Delante de ella esperaba Ferenc Szálasi, el hombre que … Read more
THE RISE AND FALL OF WALTER MODEL: THE FIELD MARSHAL WHO CHOSE DEATH OVER DEFEAT On April 21, 1945, one of Adolf Hitler’s most trusted field marshals walked into a wooded area near Duisburg with almost nothing left to command. No armored columns waited for his orders. No reserve divisions were coming. No Luftwaffe squadrons … Read more
WHY DIDN’T HITLER INVADE SWITZERLAND? THE TINY COUNTRY SURROUNDED BY THE NAZIS THAT REFUSED TO DISAPPEAR By the summer of 1940, Adolf Hitler had done something that had seemed almost impossible only a year earlier. Poland had been crushed. Denmark had fallen. Norway had been occupied. The Netherlands had surrendered. Belgium had surrendered. And France—France, … Read more
The Deadliest German Tank Commander of WWII? The Truth About Otto Carius Is Stranger Than the Legend The man who would one day be credited with destroying more than a hundred enemy tanks almost never became a soldier at all. When Otto Carius presented himself for military service in 1940, the answer was humiliatingly simple. … Read more
On May 8, 1945, the guns were supposed to fall silent. In cities across Europe, church bells rang. Crowds filled the streets of London, Paris, New York, and Moscow. Soldiers embraced strangers. Newspapers printed the word millions had been waiting almost six years to see: VICTORY. Nazi Germany had surrendered. Hitler was dead. Berlin was … Read more
Ich saß im Hamburger Stadtteil Blankenese auf einer Bank und konnte nicht aufhören zu zittern. Gerade eben hatte ich in der Cafeteria des Bürogebäudes mein Leben zerfallen sehen – und wieder zusammengesetzt. Es war alles nur ein Zufall gewesen: Ich hatte meinen Rucksack mit meinen Herztabletten vergessen und war zurückgegangen, um ihn zu holen. Als … Read more
In January 1943, in the frozen ruins of Stalingrad, General Walther von Seydlitz-Kurzbach walked out of his own lines toward the enemy while soldiers from his own side fired at his back. Hitler would sentence him to death for what he did next. Years later, Stalin would do the same. He survived them both. His … Read more
Les salles du musée de l’Armée résonnent encore des histoires de guerre, et aujourd’hui, je vous emmène à la découverte des cinq armes anti-char portatives de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, classées de la moins redoutable à la plus terrifiante, à cent mètres d’un blindé ennemi. Tout commence avec l’apparition des chars pendant la Première Guerre … Read more
La maison m’avait coûté six cent mille dollars, il y a vingt ans. Personne ne le savait. Pas même mes enfants. Je vivais chez ma fille Gina depuis cinq ans. En apparence, j’étais un vieux père recueilli par charité, un pensionné à la santé fragile qui payait un loyer pour une chambre au rez-de-chaussée. En … Read more