The crunch of boots on frozen gravel was the only sound outside the schoolhouse in Zonhoven, Belgium, that morning. Inside, the air was thick with the chill of a European winter and the static tension of a war still undecided. Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery stood before the world’s press on that January morning in 1945, … Read more
SOUTHAMPTON, N. Y. — The woman who drove Dwight D. Eisenhower through the crucible of World War II, who stood beside him on the night of June 5, 1944, when he ordered the great invasion of Europe, and who for three decades maintained an unyielding silence about what passed between them, died this morning of … Read more
GÜNZBURG, Germany — For three decades, the world’s most hunted man drew breath because of a secret ledger kept by a Bavarian farm machinery empire, a web of couriers, and a legal loophole that made his family untouchable. The Mangala family did not just know where Josef Mengele was hiding; they funded his exile, orchestrated … Read more
Der einstige Reichsmarschall, gefeierter Jagdflieger des Ersten Weltkriegs und über Jahre hinweg der zweitmächtigste Mann im nationalsozialistischen Deutschland, hegte gegenüber seinem Führer ein Verhältnis, das von tiefer Ambivalenz, eiskaltem Kalkül und letztlich vernichtender Verachtung geprägt war. Das belegen nun erstmals detaillierte Auswertungen von persönlichen Notizen, ärztlichen Gesprächsprotokollen der Nürnberger Prozesse und Zeugenaussagen von Weggefährten, die … Read more
NUREMBERG, Germany – In the cold, dim hours before his scheduled execution, Hermann Göring, the most powerful man captured from the shattered Nazi regime, cheated the gallows with a bite of cyanide, leaving behind a corpse, a taunting letter, and an enigma that has haunted historians for nearly eight decades. The Reichsmarschall, a man once … Read more
LONDON — The woman who spent three years driving Dwight D. Eisenhower across a continent at war finally broke her silence in the most calculated way possible: she waited until the day he could no longer answer. Kathleen “Kay” Summersby died on January 27, 1975, still carrying the secret that had followed her for three … Read more
VERSAILLES, France — The most patient man in the Allied high command has finally run out of patience. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander, drafted a formal ultimatum this afternoon in his requisitioned headquarters outside Paris, demanding that Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery cease his repeated challenges to the coalition’s command structure. According to sources with … Read more
München – Die Jagd nach Josef Mengele, dem Lagerarzt von Auschwitz, galt über drei Jahrzehnte als das größte Rätsel der Nachkriegszeit. Mossad-Agenten, der legendäre Nazi-Jäger Simon Wiesenthal und westdeutsche Staatsanwälte scheiterten immer wieder an einem Mann, der für den Tod von tausenden Menschen verantwortlich gemacht wird. Nun belegen Dokumente und Ermittlungsakten, dass die wahre Geschichte … Read more
The most dangerous threat to the Allied war effort in December 1944 was not the German army crashing through the Ardennes, but the ego of a British field marshal who nearly tore the Grand Alliance apart from within. In the frozen, desperate weeks following Hitler’s final gamble, Supreme Allied Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower was pushed … Read more
München, 1946. Eine Frau Mitte zwanzig wird von amerikanischen Offizieren in einem Lager in Italien vernommen. Sie spricht mit einer Ruhe, die in krassem Widerspruch zu den Gräueln steht, die ihr Vater zu verantworten hatte. Die Rede ist von Gudrun Himmler. Sie bestreitet nicht die Vergangenheit ihres Vaters, sondern verteidigt sie. Dieses Bild, der unbeirrte … Read more