The World War II extermination of Europe's Jews by Nazi Germany began after the invasion of Poland in 1939 and increased in ...

As World War II drew to a close, the hunt was already on to locate and punish the highest ranking Nazis. Some, like Adolf Hitler, Josef Goebbels, Hermann Goering and Heinrich Himmler committed ...

Images of what the Allies found when they liberated the Nazi death camps towards the end of World War II brought the horror ...

The Nazis did not start World War II with a plan to eliminate the Jews ... murder was done at close range-man-to-man, woman, or child. Himmler realized he had to find new methods that would ...

Among the Nazi leaders, Heinrich Himmler was, as Richard Breitman observes in this ground- breaking study, an easy man to underestimate—short, pudgy, near-sighted, chinless. Yet Himmler holds a ...

Andy Serkis is joining the cast of Oren Moverman's World War II ... the chronically ill Heinrich Himmler (Serkis), head of the SS and chief architect of the Holocaust. As war rages all over ...

Paris (AFP) – Images of what the Allies found when they liberated the Nazi death camps towards the end of World War II brought ... In June 1944, SS leader Heinrich Himmler ordered some camps ...

The World War II extermination of Europe's Jews by ... The leader of the SS, Heinrich Himmler, and his deputy Reinhard Heydrich, introduced the gas chambers in 1941, an extermination technique ...