DER „BRENNENDE WIDERSTANDSGENERAL“ — DER NAZI-OFFIZIER, DER 12 JAHRE LANG HITLER STÜRZEN WOLLTE… UND NACKT AN FLEISCHERHAKEN STARB
April 1945.Konzentrationslager Flossenbürg. Die Morgendämmerung ist eisig kalt. Im Innenhof herrscht völlige Stille. Sieben Männer stehen nackt auf dem Betonboden und warten auf ihren Tod. Keine Gewehre. Keine…
DIE „SCHÖNEN SCHLÄCHTERINNEN“ — WIE JUNGE FRAUEN ZU DEN GEFÜRCHTETSTEN WÄCHTERINNEN DER NAZI-TODESLAGER WURDEN
Sie lächeln auf den Fotos. Ordentliche Uniformen. Sauber frisierte Haare. Kaffeetassen in den Händen. Auf den ersten Blick wirken sie wie ganz normale junge Frauen im Deutschland…
DER „BRENNENDE SS-KOMMANDANT“ — DER NAZI-SCHLÄCHTER, DER DER HINRICHTUNG ENTKAM… BIS RÄCHER IHN 30 JAHRE SPÄTER IN SEINEM EIGENEN HAUS VERBRANNTEN
Juli 1976.Ein kleines Dorf im Osten Frankreichs. Die Nacht explodiert in Schüssen. Glas zerbirst. Molotowcocktails fliegen durch Fenster, während Flammen ein abgelegenes Holzhaus mitten im Wald verschlingen. Im…
THE “BEAUTIFUL SPECTRE” — THE FEMALE NAZI GUARD WHO SMILED WHILE SENDING WOMEN TO THE GAS CHAMBER… UNTIL 200,000 PEOPLE WATCHED HER DIE ON LIVE GALLOWS
July 4th, 1946.Biskupia Górka Hill, Poland. The crowd is so massive it looks endless. Former concentration camp prisoners stand shoulder to shoulder with grieving Polish families. Some clutch…
THE BLACK BOY THE NAZIS CALLED “ILLEGAL” — HOW A 15-YEAR-OLD SURVIVED BUCHENWALD… AND SPENT 70 YEARS MAKING GERMANY REMEMBER
April 11th, 1945.Buchenwald concentration camp. American tanks crash through the gates. US soldiers stare in horror at skeletal prisoners stumbling toward them. Among the survivors is a…
THE “LIBRARIAN OF AUSCHWITZ” — HOW A 14-YEAR-OLD GIRL HID FORBIDDEN BOOKS WHILE CHILDREN AROUND HER WERE SENT TO THE GAS CHAMBERS
June 29th, 1945.A displaced persons camp near Bergen-Belsen, Germany. Two months after liberation, a 45-year-old woman named Elisabeth Polak lies dying in a makeshift hospital bed. Her body…
THE “BURNING SS COMMANDER” — HOW THE BUTCHER OF MALMEDY WAS HUNTED DOWN AND INCINERATED IN HIS OWN HOUSE 32 YEARS AFTER WWII
July 14th, 1976.Traves, eastern France. Just after midnight on Bastille Day, flames explode through a remote wooden house near the Saône River. Inside, a 61-year-old man is…
THE “QUEEN OF MAJDANEK” — HOW AN ORDINARY GERMAN WOMAN HELPED SEND THOUSANDS OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN TO THEIR DEATHS
October 26th, 1948.Lublin Prison, Poland. A 34-year-old woman walks slowly toward the gallows. No crowd waits outside. No reporters shout questions. No cameras flash. Only silence. Just…
SOPHIE SCHOLL — HOW A 21-YEAR-OLD STUDENT DEFIED HITLER WITH LEAFLETS… AND WALKED CALMLY TO THE GUILLOTINE 4 DAYS LATER
February 22nd, 1943.5:00 p.m.Stadelheim Prison, Munich, Nazi Germany. A 21-year-old university student walks slowly down a prison corridor toward a guillotine. She is wearing a white blouse and…
THE CHENOGNE MASSACRE — HOW AMERICAN SOLDIERS EXECUTED SURRENDERED GERMAN POWS IN REVENGE FOR MALMEDY
January 1st, 1945.A frozen field near the Belgian village of Chenogne. The snow is waist-deep. The temperature is below zero. And standing in that white, silent field…