On this day in 1936, Nazi Germany's Reichstag (one-party parliament) passed a law giving the Gestapo absolute authority to ...

Heinrich Himmler, supreme chief of the dreaded SS ... last week took a group of police from Berlin to Auschwitz to explain the rise of Nazism and how any military-type of hierarchy runs the ...

During a discussion of the offer Heinrich Himmler had made to Zionist representatives ... were dealt with by a man who did not belong to the police force” that made Eichmann indignant ...

Strokes of luck Fürst and his family arrived at the entrance to Auschwitz on Nov. 3, 1944 -– one day after Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler ordered the cessation of the use of the gas chambers ...

Hundreds of Finns fought with the German Waffen-SS in Ukraine during World War II. New research shows that many of them were convinced Nazis and may have committed atrocities. The finding has ...

The massive scope of inhumanity by an authoritarian government should concern us all. The deceitful sign entering Auschwitz, “Arbeit Macht Frei” (“Work sets you free”), clashes with the constant ...

It also was reported that Hitler had named Heinrich Himmler, chief of the German police, the most dreaded man in all Germany, general commissioner for total mobilization of resources. Berlin ...

Critic-turned-novelist Jonathan Meades on the strangeness of Starmer, poor policing and his drastic cure for London’s ills ...

Across Poland, Jewish elders were ordered by the Germans to establish ghetto police forces to make ... children were saved by Hitler's deputy Heinrich Himmler's order that gas chambers cease ...