Nazi Germany

Russia holds dress rehearsal for Victory Day parade

The parade will take place at Moscow's Red Square on 9 May to celebrate 77 years of the victory in WWII

Hitler’s Aryan Man, including Jesus, was from Nordic race, and had no Vedic connections

The desperation to create a Vedic link with the National Socialists has nuanced roots in the notion of Aryan Invasion which stands debunked today. There is no trace of any Nazi links with Vedic tradition

The misunderstood Netaji: Subhas Chandra Bose hated Nazis, but he loved India’s Independence more

The standard Western and elitist Indian take on Subhas Chandra Bose’s outreach to Nazi Germany doesn’t take the idea of ‘national interest first’ into consideration

Jeremy Irons on starring in Netflix film Munich: The Edge of War — 'I love reappraisals of history'

After reflecting on his own history and the sources of his contentment, Jeremy Irons has, in recent years, chosen to work less, and revel more in immediate pleasures. “I act to live. I don’t live to act,” he said.

David Dushman, last of Soviet soldiers who liberated Auschwitz, dies at 98

As a young Red Army soldier, Dushman flattened the forbidding electric fence around the notorious Nazi death camp with his T-34 tank on 27 January, 1945

Nehru’s Nazi friend: How Adolf Hitler’s star pilot came to play a cameo role in making of modern India

The brief friendship between Nehru and Flight-Captain Hanna Reitsch illuminates how the world quickly forgave those who participated in the most evil regime the world has ever known

Auschwitz museum denounces New Yorker article on Holocaust scholarship in Poland, accuses magazine of "distorting' truth

The issue that is up for debate surrounds the degree to which Poles either helped Jews, acted as bystanders or abetted the German killings in the case of tens of thousands of Jews who managed to escape the ghettos.

Winston Churchill's painting owned by Angelina Jolie smashes auction record; sells for more than $11.5 million

The only painting that Britain’s wartime prime minister completed during the 1939-45 conflict, it was completed after the January 1943 Casablanca Conference, where Churchill and US President Franklin D Roosevelt planned the defeat of Nazi Germany.

In The Great Secret, Jennet Conant explores the link between a WWII tragedy and a cancer breakthrough

The Great Secret is at its heart a scientific detective saga starring Alexander in its first half and Rhoads in its second, as the raw material of Alexander's dogged scientific work is transformed into the effective (and sometimes not so effective) standard cancer treatment of chemotherapy.

World War II giant Tallboy bomb explodes during neutralisation near Swinoujscie in Poland; no injuries

The Tallboy bomb was designed by British aeronautical engineer Barnes Wallis and was used by the Royal Air Force to destroy large Nazi-controlled objects through underground shocks