The world’s museums of torture!
Chicago has just opened the first medieval torture museum in the United States – so why are these gory places so popular?
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Is Babylon Berlin a warning for our own time?
Babylon Berlin has opened our eyes to the reality of the Weimar Republic in Germany but also has some dark lessons for our own time
Hitler really only had one ball
Adolf Hitler was always rumoured to have one testicle – or ball – and it was the subject of a saucy British army song. It now seems that rumour was true.
How the movie industry depicts the Nazis
The Nazis have been depicted by the movie industry in musicals, drama, comedy and propaganda as Tony McMahon discovers looking back at some examples
Inside the Stasi – the East German secret police!
An explanation of the East Germany secret police – the Stasi – and the torture techniques they used.