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US finds long-lost diary of top Nazi leader and Hitler aide

Washington: The US government has recovered 400 pages from the long-lost diary of Alfred Rosenberg, a confidant of Adolf Hitler who played a central role in the extermination of millions of Jews and others during World War II.

A preliminary US government assessment reviewed by Reuters asserts the diary could offer new insight into meetings Rosenberg had with Hitler and other top Nazi leaders, including Heinrich Himmler and Herman Goering. It also includes details about the German occupation of the Soviet Union, including plans for mass killings of Jews and other Eastern Europeans.

"The documentation is of considerable importance for the study of the Nazi era, including the history of the Holocaust," according to the assessment, prepared by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. "A cursory content analysis indicates that the material sheds new light on a number of important issues relating to the Third Reich's policy. The diary will be an important source of information to historians that compliments, and in part contradicts, already known documentation."

How the writings of Rosenberg, a Nazi Reich minister who was convicted at Nuremberg and hanged in 1946, might contradict what historians believe to be true is unclear. Further details about the diary's contents could not be learned, and a US government official stressed that the museum's analysis remains preliminary....more    

Hitler, Mafia, Bomber seek votes in Meghalaya

Hitler, Mafia, Bomber, Kennedy and Alexander are among 346 candidates seeking votes in Meghalaya. Not to be left behind, some voters in the state also have peculiar names like Thailand, New York and Submarine. ...  

I was Hitler's food taster, says 95-year-old woman

Margot Woelk, now a 95-year-old woman, says she was the "food taster" of Adolf Hitler for more than two years, and had to taste the dictator's food to ensure it was not poisoned. ...  

Holocaust victims mourned at Auschwitz and beyond

Holocaust survivors, politicians, religious leaders and others are marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day with solemn prayers and the now oft-repeated warnings to never let such horrors happen again. Events took place at sites including Auschwitz-Birkenau on Sunday, the former death camp where Hitler's Germany killed at least 1.1 million people, mostly Jews, in southern Poland. ...  

Photos of bunker where Hitler killed himself unveiled

Some unseen monochrome photographs of the blood spilled bunker, where Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler and his wife Eva Braun committed suicide, are on public display for the first time. Many of the black and white photos did not make the final cut for the special edition published immediately after the war in 1945, but have been flagged up now in Life.com gallery after a trawl through the magazine's archives. ...  

Shantigopal Pal, legendary Bengali yatra artist, dies

Kolkata: Shantigopal Pal, the Bengali yatra artist who is a part of the Bengali folklore, breathed his last on Monday morning at his Baranagar residence in Kolkata. He was 86 years old. Shantigopal, in a career spanning almost six decades, had played the roles of personalities such as Vladimir Lenin, Karl Marx, Mao Tse Tung, Salvador Allende, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, Raja Rammohun Roy, Swami Vivekananda among others. Yatra, the...  

Russian woman fined $3,000 over 'Mein Kampf'

Moscow: A woman staff member of a Russian university has been slapped a fine of 100,000 rubles ($3,000) by a court for posting an online copy of Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf" on her personal website. The 28-year-old woman posted the book, which is on the Russian federal list of extremist literature, on her website from 2007 until 2011, said prosecutors at the Yekaterinburg city court. The woman pleaded guilty on...  

Ahmedabad's 'Hitler' store courts controversy

Ahmedabad: A readymade garments shop that opened around three weeks back in Ahmedabad and sells Gandhi and Superman T-shirts among other trendy clothes has been courting controversy not just in India but all over the world. From New York Times to Russia Today, from Die Welt to Daily Mail - Rajesh Shah's shop which is called HiTLER with the dot in 'i' resembling a swastika, the National Socialist Party (Nazi)...  

Keshubhai compares Narendra Modi to Adolf Hitler

Junagarh: The war of words within the Bharatiya Janata Party's Gujarat unit is escalating. Former Gujarat chief minister Keshubhai Patel has hit out at his successor Narendra Modi and compared him to Adolf Hitler. Addressing farmers in Kutch, Patel said Modi ruled like a dictator and said Gujarat was in a state of mini-emergency. Last month, Keshubhai Patel had threatened to quit the party, and proposed a Third Front for...  

Hitler's vintage Mercedes car discovered

London: A New Jersey auto dealer was shocked to find that the vintage car he bought while searching on an on-line shopping store was built for the Hitler camp in 1942. Zenop Tuncer, an auto dealer called up Mercedes to order parts for a vintage car he was repairing, and when he revealed the vehicle's serial number to the company, the reply was: "That's Hitler's car." Mercedes confirmed that the...  

Small screen apes big; creativity down the tube

New Delhi: Where has all the creativity gone, wonder television viewers who find that an increasing number of soaps have annoyingly familiar stories, taken from one Bollywood blockbuster or the other. From 'Kya Hua Tera Vaada' to 'Hitler Didi', many serials are taking a cue from the movies, whipping up storylines and adding some small screen flavour to keep the track going for as long as possible. The twists and...  

Hitler protected Jew who was WW I hero: Report

Berlin: A Jewish World War I veteran was allegedly spared - for a while, at least - from Nazi persecution thanks to a letter that claimed Adolf Hitler wanted him protected, a German Jewish newspaper reported. The Nazi leader ordered the genocide of all Europe's Jews but apparently wanted Ernst Hess, a judge, to be left alone because they had served in the same WWI unit and Hess had briefly...  

Cong compares Modi to Hitler's propaganda minister

New Delhi: Hitting back at Narendra Modi for his criticism of the UPA, Congress on Saturday said the soul of Hitler's propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels seemed to have entered the "frustrated" Gujarat Chief Minister and accused him of crossing the "Laxmanrekha". "Gujarat Chief Minister is a frustrated man. It seems the soul of Joseph Goebbels, the propaganda minister during the Nazi regime of Hitler in Germany, has gone inside him....  

'Hitler used cocaine, had fart problem'

Washington: Adolf Hitler was apparently a coke head who farted uncontrollably, ingested some 28 drugs at a time and received injections of bull testicle extracts to bolster his libido. It's a whole other side to the Nazi dictator, whose poor health condition was revealed in medical documents that are now up for auction online at Alexander Historical Auctions of Stamford. Bidding for the documents - which include ten X-rays of...  

Hitler had a lovechild? Diary says so

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...  

'Hitler had planned to set up headquarters in UK'

London: German dictator Adolf Hitler had plans to set up his headquarters in the English Midlands if the Nazi invasion of Britain had been successful during World War II, say historians. According to them, Hitler had, in fact, chalked out the "top secret" plan to use Apley Hall, near Norton, in the heart of Shropshire countryside in the Midlands as the headquarters of his operation during the Second World War....  

Nazis 'planted spy in MI5 during World War II'

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,...  

Hitler stole Beetle idea from Jew engineer: book

London: Adolf Hitler stole the idea for the iconic Volkswagen Beetle car from a Jewish engineer and had his name written out of history, a historian has said in a new book. The Nazi leader has always been given credit for sketching out the early concept for the Beetle during a meeting with car designer Ferdinand Porsche in 1935. His idea for the Volkswagen -- or "people's car" -- is...