Home Office blacklist features 720 Britons who ‘wanted to help Hitler’

A fascinating Home Office blacklist featuring 720 Britons believed to have wanted to help Nazi Germany in the event of a UK invasion has been revealed. Historian Neil Storey has studied the regional lists at the National Archives which were compiled by police and MI5 in August 1940 during the Second World War. They revealed … Read more

Beauties who had babies for Hitler: Fuhrer ordered German soldiers to impregnate Norwegian girls

HISTORY Hitler’s Northern Utopia by Despina Stratigakos (Princeton £25, 328 pp) Adolf Hitler was mesmerised. In the spring of 1934, he went on holiday, a secret cruise in a German battleship through the fjords of Norway and, for hours on end, stared at the natural beauty around him. A Norwegian crew member later recalled him … Read more

Creepy waxwork models of the Queen, Henry VIII and even Adolf Hitler go on sale as museum shuts down

Creepy waxwork models of the Queen, Henry VIII and even Adolf Hitler go on sale alongside a giant military transport plane as museum shuts down Collectors can buy waxwork models of the Queen, Henry VIII and Hitler A Blackburn Beverley transport aircraft XB259 is also up for sale for  £30,000 The elderly owner of the Fort Paull … Read more

Undercover Soviet agent hatched plot to blow up Hitler before assassination attempt was called off

Neighbours in the tranquil Oxfordshire village of Great Rollright knew housewife Mrs Burton for the scrumptious taste of her scones in the summer of 1945. But they had no idea she was actually top Soviet spy Ursula Kuczynski, who came close to blowing up Adolf Hitler before Joseph Stalin got cold feet. Kuczynski, code-named Sonya, nearly averted the … Read more

Proms conductor’s husband plays bass in Hitler row rock band

The husband of the conductor in the Proms row is a guitarist for a heavy metal band that tried to release a song about Adolf Hitler. Dalia Stasevska’s husband, 42-year-old Lauri Porra, plays bass for Stratovarius, who have had three number one albums in their native Finland. The offending 2005 track, which the band had … Read more