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Wilm Hosenfeld: The Nazi Officer Who Saved Pianist Władysław Szpilman and Inspired a Legendary Film
Wilm Hosenfeld, a German officer during World War II, defied the brutality of the Nazi regime by saving lives, including that of renowned pianist Władysław Szpilman, whose story inspired the Oscar-winning film The Pianist. Despite his heroic actions, Hosenfeld died tragically in a Soviet Gulag, but his legacy endures as one of the ‘Righteous Among the…
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Rudolf Höss: Nazi, Loving Father, and Monster of the Concentration Camp Auschwitz
Rudolf Höss was a war criminal complicit in the Holocaust. And also a figure today’s corporate world might appreciate. What can his character teach us about today’s society?
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How Is a Monster Born? The Architect of the Holocaust Adolf Eichmann Under the Psychologists’ Microscope
Otto Adolf Eichmann was one of the main architects of the Holocaust, the Nazi extermination of Jews during World War II. But was he an inhuman monster or merely a cog in the Nazi machinery?
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Ignaz Semmelweis: Wash Your Hands! A Misunderstood Doctor, Savior of Millions
Although his discoveries were undervalued and even ridiculed during his lifetime, his work saved countless lives and laid the foundation for antiseptic practices in hospitals.
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Kristallnacht: A Tragic Prelude to the Holocaust
86 years have passed since the prelude to the Holocaust, a coordinated anti-Jewish pogrom that went down in history as Kristallnacht.
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Simon Wiesenthal: The Incredible Life of the Legendary Nazi Hunter
He survived the Holocaust and dedicated a large part of his life to pursuing escaped Nazi war criminals. But who was Simon Wiesenthal, really?
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Ukrainian Banderites: Murderers and Fascists or Freedom Fighters?
Ukrainian independence fighters who preferred to ally with the Germans rather than serve the Soviets, while also committing war crimes. This is the story of the Banderites without ideological lenses.
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Irma Grese: the monster with the face of an angel, the Nazi beast from Belsen
Irma Grese, the sadistic beast of Belsen, was a fanatical Nazi, renowned for her cruelty. Here’s her story.
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