Why are we still teaching the works of Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) in schools? This monster joined the eugenics movement in the early 20th century advocating – in no uncertain terms – the mass killing in “lethal chambers” of people who were not useful to society. Not surprisingly, he then became a cheerleader…
Thousands of LGBT people were killed by the Nazis in concentrations camps between 1933 and 1945 – the duration of Adolf Hitler’s grip on power in Germany. However, the demonising of German gays in the 1930s came just as much from the political Left as the Nazis. Depressingly, Socialists and Communists used homosexuality as a…
Once again, the question of Hitler’s alleged undescended testicle has come into the public glare. Channel 4, a TV network in the United Kingdom, is broadcasting a documentary, Hitler’s DNA: Blueprint of a Dictator, where a blood-drenched piece of fabric from the sofa Hitler was sitting on when he blew his brains out is analysed…
The Nazis looted huge amounts of gold, treasure, and artworks. Hollywood heroised the Monuments Men – museum curators and arts professors within the American armed forces – who recovered much of the stolen Nazi treasure. But not all of it. After the war, those who went looking for what was still missing were reportedly killed…
When you think about movies that portray Adolf Hitler – the ones that spring to mind are the 2004 German classic Downfall and Charlie Chaplin’s mocking satire, The Great Dictator, made in 1940. But during World War Two, there were some very unusual movies about the Nazi leader of the Third Reich. For example, the…
The Thule secret society was a bunch of German occultists who are believed to have exerted a strong influence on Nazi ideology. But did these sinister individuals really shape the policies of Adolf Hitler? Nazis – the mainstream account of their rise There are two ways of looking at the rise of the Nazis. On…
On Tuesday June 6, 1944, the biggest seaborne and airborne invasion in history took place on the northern coast of France. The Normandy Landings – or Operation Overlord – more often referred to simply as D-Day. This was the moment when the Allied Forces began the process of liberating France, and the whole of western…
There are many mysteries surrounding the Nazi Third Reich as TV historian Tony McMahon discovers
The Portuguese fascist dictator Antonio Salazar is receiving favourable reviews from some American conservative publications – Tony McMahon reports
History has seen one power crazed ruler after another from Caligula to Henry VIII and Tony McMahon finds out what made them tick