# Gestapo
History’s Top Executioners of All Time
Murderers are generally scary, but scariest among them is a subcategory that sends extra shivers down the spine: a serial killer. Something about psychos who go about gratuitously piling up victims, one…
Facts About These Notorious Law Breakers and Their Criminal History
Throughout history, as seen below, criminals and lawbreakers have sometimes been driven by altruistic motives. Take, for example, the teenage…
D-Day’s Black Barrage Balloon Operators and Other Lesser Known WWII Facts
The Second World War was so enormous that many or most of its details are little known to most of…
This Housewife Became World War II’s Highly Decorated Spy
In 1942, Odette Sansom, a housewife and mother of three from Somerset, heard a broadcast from the Admiralty appealing for…
The German Youth Gangs That Battled the Nazis During World War II
From an early age, Hans Steinbrück struggled to find a place for himself within German society. Born in 1921 and…
Marked For Death: The Nazi War on Homosexuality
Everyone sent to the Nazi concentration camps in World War II endured horrors beyond what most people could endure. Millions…
This Day In History: Anti-Nazi Activist Sophie Scholl Is Executed (1943)
On this day in history, the now celebrated young German student, Sophie Scholl was executed. Scholl was a valued member…
This Day In History: The Allies Agree To Prosecute War Criminals (1942)
On this day in 1942, the representative of nine Nazi-occupied countries met to agree, a common policy on Nazi atrocities…