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9 days ago

Adolf Hitler's bigamist brother's womanising legacy in Britain revealed... and the UK street that is horrified at becoming a Nazi shrine

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a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

With convictions for theft as a young man, Alois Hitler left Austria and his bullying father for Ireland where he met and married an Irish teenager by the name of Bridget Dowling

11 days ago

The Director by Daniel Kehlmann review – the author’s best work yet

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

This portrait of German film-maker GW Pabst and his moral struggles under the Nazis has the darkness and ambiguity of a modern Grimms’ fairytale

Georg Wilhelm Pabst was one of the most influential fil…

13 days ago

Goebbels and the Führer review – private life of propagandist shows grotesque heart of Nazism

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Joachim Lang’s bleak film shows a preening Goebbels and a careworn Hitler as they battle to convince the German public, and themselves, they will win the war

In an appropriate spirit of cynicism and b…

14 days ago

Hitler's last soldier... in the US: How German tank commander evaded FBI for 40 years by building new life as all-American ski instructor after escaping PoW camp at end of WWII

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a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

To his friends, his wife and even local newspapers, Dennis Whiles was everything he claimed to be. He was a dashing ski instructor and tennis pro, living it up in California and Hawaii.

15 days ago

The knife wielded by real-life SAS Rogue Heroes soldier against Hitler's troops in WWII

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a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

Major Charles 'Pat' Riley, who was played by actor Jacob Ifan in the hit BBC series SAS: Rogue Heroes, carried the weapon on missions against Hitler's forces. It has emerged for sale.

20 days ago

The women who tasted Hitler's food... and feared every meal would be their last: Film inspired by survivor's astonishing testimony shed's light on Nazi dictator's fear of being poisoned

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a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

In 2013, 95-year-old Margot Woelk broke decades of silence to claim that she and 15 other women were tasked with eating Hitler's food. New film The Tasters is inspired by her story.

22 days ago

Marcel Ophuls: the unflinching chronicler of France’s suppressed wartime shame

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

The Sorrow and the Pity punched a hole through France’s self-excusing myths and saw something nastier, shabbier, more political and more human

• Marcel Ophuls dies aged 97

The last great voice of warti…

From nude Harry Potter to a scribbled Hitler: meet the man behind theatre’s most eye-grabbing posters

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

He created the iconic Phantom of the Opera mask, made Daniel Radcliffe go topless and even had his Führer design banned on the tube. Theatreland’s go-to graphic artist Bob King talks us through his b…

No meat, no beer and hopefully no poison: the curious tale of Hitler’s food tasters

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Based on Margot Wölk’s extraordinary account, Silvio Soldini’s film The Tasters sees a group of women seemingly risk their lives with each bite. But does the story add up?

The story is almost too comp…

26 days ago

'Impossible' escape of SAS commando from Hitler's Gestapo revealed after 80 years: How WWII hero killed six Nazi soldiers to make dash for freedom from surrounded farmhouse after blowing up train

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a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

Squadron Quartermaster Sergeant John Alcock appeared doomed when nearly 40 enemy troops surrounded the French farmhouse he was hiding in.

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