London: A sensational entry in a newly discovered diary of a soldier has added weight to the claims that Adolf Hitler had fathered a lovechild with a 16-year-old French woman while serving as a corporal during World War I. For decades, the tatty pocket diary of former Royal Engineer Leonard Wilkes had gathered dust in a box on top of a wardrobe among a war hero's possessions. His sons, Alan...
02:12 PM, Mar 15, 2012
London: German dictator Adolf Hitler managed to plant a Nazi agent in British spy agency MI5 during the initial years of the Second World War, but failed to utilise him, de-classified documents have revealed. According to the documents, Dutchman Folkert Arie van Koutrik was the first German agent ever to infiltrate MI5 when he was employed by them in 1940. Koutrik had already worked for Abwehr, the German secret service,...
07:59 AM, Feb 18, 2012
New York: The signature under the typewritten words on yellowing sheets of nearly century-old paper is unmistakable: Adolf Hitler, with the last few scribbled letters drooping downward. The date is 1919 and, decades before the Holocaust, the 30-year-old German soldier "born in Austria" penned what are believed to be Hitler's first written comments calling for the annihilation of Jews. Written on a German army typewriter, Hitler's letter has long been...
10:45 AM, Jun 08, 2011
London: A rare copy of Adolf Hitler's autobiography 'Mein Kampf', signed by the dictator himself, will go on sale soon -- and is expected to sell for 30,000 pounds. The first edition of the book, which the Nazi ruler wrote while he was in the Landsberg prison in Germany in 1925, would go under the hammer this month, the Daily Mail reported. The signed book is one of just 20...
12:16 PM, Apr 13, 2011
Berlin: A group of web 2.0 communities in Germany has launched a campaign called "Social Networks against Nazis" in a bid to fight right-wing extremism on the Internet. The campaign's organisers, who were backed at the launch on Monday by Consumer Affairs Minister Ilse Aigner, say right-wing extremists have used social networking sites to air racist and anti-Semitic views, call for violence, reach audiences otherwise unacquainted with neo-Nazi ideas and...
11:25 AM, Oct 13, 2010
German auctioneer sells three paintings of the dictator for $60,000. ...
12:33 AM, Sep 06, 2009
Director Michael Haneke explores the roots of Nazi terror in this film. ...
12:55 AM, May 25, 2009
Nazi criminal Aribert Heim would be 94 years old if still alive. ...
02:37 PM, Jul 09, 2008
New Delhi: Australian spin legend Shane Warne pleaded for an end to the talk of Sachin Tendulkar's retirement as he joined the international chorus of appreciation for the iconic Indian cricketer who scripted history by completing a century of international tons on Friday. Apart from his close friend Warne, cricket legends such as Sir Vivian Richards, former Australian captain Ian Chappell, Ian Botham, Rahul Dravid, Kevin Pietersen and Tony Greig...
11:15 AM, May 04, 2008
Perth: After getting mauled inside three days at the Western Australia Cricket Association ground, one would have expected the Indian cricket team to congregate for a team bonding if not a net session on the morning after their loss to Australia in the third Test here. But there was no such thing for Mahendra Singh Dhoni's under-fire team that has become an object of ridicule in Australia as well as...
02:02 AM, Apr 12, 2008
London: It may have been a nightmarish tour on field but off the field, Indian cricketers had an evening to remember when they were felicitated by the Indo-British Parliamentarians Group for their historic World Cup triumph earlier this year. Britain's former Foreign Secretary David Miliband presented a Crystal Cup to Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni at a Parliamentary Gala dinner held in honour of the team at the May Fair ...
04:17 PM, Feb 27, 2008
Austrian-born Nazi dictator got German nationality in 1932. A political party now wants to strip him of citizenship. ...
09:33 AM, Mar 13, 2007
A German court convicted five men for throwing a copy of Anne Frank's "Diary" into a bonfire at a community party organised by neo-Nazis. ...
02:02 AM, Mar 09, 2007
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