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Mussolini's Secret Bunkers Are Opened

Visitors can now immerse themselves in 'darkest pages of our history'

(Newser) - As many as 12 World War II bunkers have been identified beneath the city of Rome, thought to have been built for Benito Mussolini or other party leaders, reports Business Insider . Three are now set to open to the public on Halloween; two were opened for a short time in...

Report: Hitler Was on Crystal Meth

 Report: 
 Hitler Was 
 on Crystal Meth 
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Oct 18, 2014 6:47 AM CDT

Report: Hitler Was on Crystal Meth

Nazi leader took 74 drugs in all, says US dossier

(Newser) - Adolf Hitler apparently relied on a stunning array of drugs while ruling Nazi Germany, including one made popular by the show Breaking Bad: crystal meth. According to a 47-page US military dossier, a physician filled the Fuhrer with barbiturate tranquilizers, morphine, bulls' semen, a pill that contained crystal meth, and...

Austria's Struggle: No One Wants Hitler's House

The large building has stood empty since 2011

(Newser) - A home's history can really make or break its marketability. Such is the case with what would otherwise be prime real estate in Austria's Braunau am Inn, a town near the German border. This house marks the spot where Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889; it...

Teacher Asks Sixth-Graders to Compare Bush, Hitler

DC school district sorry about homework assignment

(Newser) - The DC school district has apologized to parents over a doozy of a sixth-grade homework assignment: A teacher asked the kids to compare and contrast Hitler and George W. Bush, NBC Washington reports. With Venn diagrams, of course. It seems the class was studying war and peace, and the unidentified...

Austria Turning Hitler's Home Into Holocaust Museum

Austrian building will be called a 'house of responsibility'

(Newser) - Plans are in the works to open a Holocaust museum in what may seem a surprising location: Hitler's boyhood home in Austria. Local officials in Braunau am Inn, near the German border, have decided to turn it into the House of Responsibility, a center designed to educate the public...

Thousands of WWII War Crimes Records Unveiled

Holocaust Museum makes digital archive available to public

(Newser) - From Adolf Hitler down to the petty bureaucrats who staffed the Nazi death camps, thousands of perpetrators of World War II war crimes were eventually written up in vast reams of investigative files—files that now, for the first time, can be viewed in their entirety by the public. The...

Adolf Hitler: Billionaire Tax Dodger?

Documentary claims he was both secret billionaire, tax evader

(Newser) - Amid Adolf Hitler's staggeringly horrific crimes against humanity, some pretty heavy-duty tax evasion appears to have been overlooked, a new British documentary set to air Friday finds. The Hunt for Hitler's Missing Millions argues that the Fuhrer had plenty of money-making schemes, the Mirror reports: He copyrighted his...

Analysis: Sinatra Is Planet&#39;s Most Important Person...
Analysis: Sinatra Is Planet's Most Important Person...
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Jun 15, 2014 7:00 PM CDT

Analysis: Sinatra Is Planet's Most Important Person...

...at least according to Wikipedia ... and its English version

(Newser) - Using methods borrowed from Google, a group of researchers has analyzed all Wikipedia pages and determined that, at least on the English language version of the site, Frank Sinatra is the world's most important person. Second place goes to Michael Jackson, and third to Pope Pius XII. When factoring...

Hitler May Have Married a Jew
 Hitler May Have Married a Jew 
Apr 5, 2014 8:28 AM CDT

Hitler May Have Married a Jew

Documentary suggests Eva Braun has Jewish ancestry

(Newser) - A British documentary airing next week makes an astonishing claim: Hitler inadvertently married a Jew in one of his last acts before suicide, reports the Telegraph . The Channel 4 show, Dead Famous DNA, maintains that hair from Eva Braun's brush suggests she had Jewish ancestry on her mother's...

&#39;Great Escape&#39; Survivor Tells His Tale, 70 Years On
'Great Escape' Survivor
Tells His Tale, 70 Years On
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Mar 29, 2014 7:58 AM CDT

'Great Escape' Survivor Tells His Tale, 70 Years On

Dick Churchill thinks his name may have saved him

(Newser) - Monday marked the first "formal act of remembrance" held in the name of the World War II prisoners who participated in the "Great Escape," the famed March 24, 1944, breakout from German POW camp Stalag Luft III that saw only three men make it to freedom. The...

Brit Who Cracked Hitler&#39;s Code Dies at 93
Brit Who Cracked Hitler's Code Dies at 93
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Mar 27, 2014 11:20 AM CDT

Brit Who Cracked Hitler's Code Dies at 93

Raymond "Jerry" Roberts remembered

(Newser) - Britain has lost one of its last World War II code breakers, credited with shortening the war by at least two years and saving millions of lives. Raymond "Jerry" Roberts—who died at 93 after a short illness—served as a German linguist and cryptographer at Britain's premier...

American Buys Autographed Mein Kampf

Two-volume set signed by Hitler sells for $65K at auction

(Newser) - What's an autograph of the world's most vilified man worth? About $65,000, apparently. An unidentified American bought a two-volume set of Mein Kampf signed by Hitler himself at auction in Los Angeles this week, reports the BBC . That's about three times the expected price, notes Time ...

Merkel 'Hitler' Photo in Israel Is a Sensation

Netanyahu casts an unfortunate shadow on German leader

(Newser) - Photographer Marc Israel Sellem of the Jerusalem Post wins craziest-photo-of-the-day honors, and it might be tough to beat him in all of 2014. He captured Benjamin Netanyahu casting a shadow on German leader Angela Merkel's face that looks for all the world like a Hitler mustache, reports Mediaite . The...

Shooting Up the Sales Chart: Mein Kampf?

Writer thinks online anonymity, curiosity, driving Hitler's e-book sales

(Newser) - If you look at the politics and current events section on iTunes' book store you will, as of this writing, see Hitler's face staring back at you out of the 3 and 4 spots. Mein Kampf has been a nothing short of an e-book blockbuster, on both iTunes and...

Town Relents, Strips Hitler of Honorary Citizenship

German municipality acts after outcry

(Newser) - A German town has thought twice and decided that Adolf Hitler shouldn't be an honorary citizen after all. The Bavarian municipality of Dietramszell stripped the fuhrer of the title this week after an initial attempt failed last week, reports the BBC . In the first vote, the town council deadlocked...

Olympic Medal That Enraged Hitler Up for Auction

Jesse Owens' only surviving 1936 gold hits the block

(Newser) - A precious piece of sports history—and history itself—is hitting the auction block: the only known original Jesse Owens gold medal. It's unclear which of Owens' four 1936 Olympic wins the medal is attached to, and the whereabouts of the other three are unknown. But it's the...

German Town to Strip Hitler's Honorary Citizenship

Move comes 68 years after Nazi leader's death

(Newser) - A town in central Germany plans to strip Adolf Hitler of his honorary citizenship, 68 years after the Nazi leader's death. The town assembly of Goslar in Lower Saxony state has set in motion a procedure that would formally remove the title next month. The dpa news agency reported...

Hitler's Bodyguard Dead at 96

Rochus Misch was the last surviving witness from the bunker

(Newser) - There aren't many people who reminisce fondly about their days with Adolf Hitler, and the world just lost one of the last of them. Rochus Misch, Hitler's bodyguard and the last surviving witness to his final days in the bunker, died yesterday at age 96, surrounded by his...

'Hitler' Bell Still Rings Hourly

For 80 years, the Austrian government owned a bell glorifying Hitler

(Newser) - For 80 years, a large bell in an ancient castle in the sleepy village of Wolfpassing, Austria, has rung every hour. Charming—except the bell is a monument to Adolf Hitler, complete with a swastika and inscribed with praise for the "unifier and Fuehrer of all Germans." Even...

Thai School: Sorry About Hitler Superhero Banner

Dean explains it was meant to be a 'conceptual paradox'

(Newser) - You may have thought Adolf Hitler was ( almost ) universally reviled, but apparently at least a few people in Thailand aren't aware of just how controversial a figure he is. For two entire days, a billboard outside Chulalongkorn University, the country's premier university, read "Congratulations" alongside...

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