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27/08/2026

Why This N**i U-Boat Was Found in the Wrong Location

For decades, historians believed the German submarine **U-869** had been destroyed near North Africa. Then divers discovered a mysterious U-boat wreck about **60 miles off the coast of New Jersey**—thousands of miles from where the records said it should be.

The discovery created one of the greatest submarine mysteries of **World War II**.

U-869 was a German **Type IXC/40 U-boat** commanded by **Hellmut Neuerburg**. Wartime records originally concluded that it had been sunk near Casablanca in February 1945. But when deep-sea divers **John Chatterton and Richie Kohler** began exploring an unidentified wreck off New Jersey, evidence found inside eventually revealed something astonishing.

The submarine was **U-869**.

So how did a U-boat believed lost near Africa end up on the American East Coast?

Historical research indicated that U-869 had originally been assigned to patrol waters near the United States before German command attempted to redirect it toward the Gibraltar area. The submarine may never have received those new orders. Exactly how it sank remains uncertain, although one theory suggests it may have been destroyed by its **own malfunctioning acoustic torpedo**.

In this video, we uncover the remarkable story of **U-869**, the divers who spent years identifying the wreck, the evidence that forced historians to rewrite its fate, and the mystery surrounding its final moments.

For more than half a century, even the families of its crew had been told their loved ones died near Africa. The truth was lying beneath the Atlantic—just off America.

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26/08/2026

Where Did the Camp Guards Go After WW2?

When N**i Germany collapsed in 1945, thousands of **concentration camp guards, SS personnel, and camp officials** suddenly faced the possibility of capture and prosecution.

But what actually happened to them after World War II?

Some guards were arrested immediately as Allied troops liberated camps such as **Dachau, Buchenwald, Bergen-Belsen, and Auschwitz**. A number were later prosecuted in major war-crimes trials, where evidence of executions, beatings, forced labor, starvation, and mass murder led to prison sentences and, in some cases, executions.

Others escaped.

Many former guards removed their uniforms, destroyed documents, returned to civilian life, or attempted to hide their SS service. Some fled Germany through postwar escape routes, while others simply blended into communities where investigators lacked the evidence or resources to identify them.

Even more surprisingly, many former camp personnel were never prosecuted at all.

During the early postwar years, Allied authorities faced millions of displaced people, prisoners, former soldiers, and suspected N**i Party members. As the **Cold War** intensified, priorities changed, and countless lower-ranking perpetrators avoided serious punishment.

Decades later, investigators in Germany and abroad reopened cases. Elderly former guards from Auschwitz, Sobibor, Stutthof, and other camps were still being prosecuted many years after the war, often on charges of accessory to murder.

In this video, we investigate **what happened to N**i concentration camp guards after WW2**, who was captured, who escaped justice, how some rebuilt normal lives, and why prosecutions continued for generations.

The war ended in 1945—but for many victims and investigators, the search for justice lasted far longer.

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Sources:
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) — Bergen-Belsen Trial
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) — US Army Trials in Postwar
Zentrale Stelle Ludwigsburg
The National Archives (UK) — Bergen-Belsen trial records
Imperial War Museums (UK) — Belsen On Trial, 1945
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26/08/2026

This Göring Spent WW2 Undoing Everything His Brother Did

The name **Göring** became synonymous with the N**i regime—but one member of the family followed a remarkably different path.

**Albert Göring**, the younger brother of Hermann Göring, was reportedly an outspoken opponent of N**ism who used the power of his infamous surname to help **Jews, political prisoners, and Czech resistance members** during World War II.

While Hermann Göring became one of Adolf Hi**er’s most powerful lieutenants, commanded the Luftwaffe, and played a major role in N**i persecution, Albert repeatedly intervened on behalf of people targeted by the regime.

Working as an export director for the **Škoda Works in occupied Czechoslovakia**, Albert was accused by N**i authorities of assisting resistance activities. Witnesses later described him obtaining documents, helping persecuted families escape, and using his brother’s influence to secure the release of prisoners.

The Gestapo became increasingly suspicious of him. Arrest warrants were reportedly issued, yet Hermann repeatedly intervened to protect his younger brother—even as Albert continued opposing the system Hermann had helped create.

Then Germany collapsed in 1945.

Because of his surname, Albert was detained and investigated by the Allies. He produced a list containing **34 people he claimed to have helped**, and witnesses eventually testified on his behalf.

But his postwar life was far from easy. The Göring name that had once protected him now made finding employment extremely difficult. Albert died in **1966**, largely forgotten and financially struggling.

In this video, we uncover the extraordinary and still-debated story of **Albert Göring—the anti-N**i brother of Hermann Göring**.

How could two brothers end up on such completely opposite sides of history?

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📚 Primary Sources:
Thirty Four — William Hastings Burke (2009)
US National Archives M1019
The Times of Israel (2016)
whastingsburke.com/albert-goering/
BBC Radio 4: “The Good Göring” (2016

25/08/2026

The Allies Kidnapped a German General in Broad Daylight | And Got Away With It
In April 1944, a small team of **British SOE agents and Cretan resistance fighters** attempted one of the most daring operations of World War II: kidnapping a German general from under the noses of thousands of occupation troops.

Their target was **Major General Heinrich Kreipe**, commander of Germany’s 22nd Air Landing Division on occupied Crete.

On the night of **April 26, 1944**, British officers **Patrick Leigh Fermor and William Stanley Moss**, disguised as German military policemen, stopped Kreipe’s staff car near his headquarters. They seized the general, took control of his vehicle, and began an extraordinary escape through German-controlled territory.

Then came the unbelievable part.

With Kreipe hidden inside his own car, the British officers reportedly drove through **more than 20 German checkpoints**, with Leigh Fermor impersonating the captured general. The deception worked.

After abandoning the vehicle, the kidnappers joined Cretan resistance fighters and led Kreipe across Crete’s rugged mountains while German forces launched an enormous manhunt.

For nearly three weeks, the group avoided capture before reaching the island’s southern coast. On **May 14, 1944**, a British motor launch finally evacuated Kreipe to Egypt.

The German general would spend the remainder of the war as an Allied prisoner.

In this video, we uncover the incredible **kidnapping of General Heinrich Kreipe**, the secret SOE operation, the Cretan resistance fighters who risked everything, and how a handful of men successfully carried a German general through occupied territory and escaped.

It remains one of WWII’s boldest special operations.

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25/08/2026

What Happened to the 24 German Generals Captured at Stalingrad?
When the **German Sixth Army surrendered at Stalingrad in February 1943**, the Soviet Union captured roughly **91,000 Axis soldiers**—including, according to Soviet wartime totals, **24 generals** and Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus.

For Hi**er, it was an almost unimaginable humiliation.

Paulus had been promoted to field marshal shortly before surrender, with Hi**er expecting him to die rather than become the first German field marshal captured alive. Instead, Paulus surrendered on **January 31, 1943**, while the last German forces under General Karl Strecker capitulated two days later.

But what happened to the captured generals afterward?

Their experiences were very different from those of ordinary Stalingrad prisoners, thousands of whom died from disease, starvation, exhaustion, and the harsh conditions of Soviet captivity. Some generals also died as prisoners, while others remained in the Soviet Union for many years.

Several eventually turned against Hi**er. **Walther von Seydlitz-Kurzbach** became involved with the Soviet-backed League of German Officers, while Paulus later publicly appealed to Germans to abandon Hi**er and testified for the Soviet prosecution at the **Nuremberg Trials**.

Paulus was finally released in **1953** and settled in East Germany. Other senior officers remained prisoners until the mid-1950s, with some not returning to Germany until years after the war had ended.

In this video, we uncover the **fate of the German generals captured at Stalingrad**, their years inside Soviet captivity, who cooperated with Moscow, who remained loyal to their old beliefs, who died as prisoners—and who eventually made it home.

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Sources
Avalon Project – Nuremberg Trial Proceedings
German History in Documents and Images – Paulus after capitulation
Cairn.info – Walther von Seydlitz-Kurzbach (peer-reviewed)
JMVH – Stalingrad: The Hinge of History
Antony Beevor – Stalingrad
Vasily Grossman –Life and Fate
David M. Glantz - Stalingrad
Allen Frazier - The Battle of Stalingrad: The Deadliest Battle in Human History Ended 83 Years Ago
Britannica — Battle of Stalingrad
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24/08/2026

Franz Stangl | The Treblinka Commandant Who Became a Volkswagen Employee

How did **Franz Stangl**, the former commandant of Treblinka, escape postwar Europe and eventually become an employee of **Volkswagen in Brazil**?

Stangl was an Austrian SS officer who played a major role in the N**i killing system. After serving in the **Aktion T4 euthanasia program**, he became commandant of the **Sobibor extermination camp** and later **Treblinka**, where hundreds of thousands of Jews were murdered during Operation Reinhard.

When N**i Germany collapsed in 1945, Stangl initially fell into Allied hands. But he escaped custody and fled through Italy with assistance from networks that helped wanted N**is leave Europe. He reached **Syria** before eventually moving with his family to **Brazil in 1951**.

Remarkably, Stangl lived there under his real name.

In 1959, he began working for **Volkswagen do Brasil** near São Paulo. For approximately eight years, one of the most wanted N**i fugitives lived an apparently ordinary life while working for one of the world’s largest automobile companies.

Then N**i hunter **Simon Wiesenthal** helped track him down.

Brazilian authorities arrested Stangl in **1967**, and he was extradited to West Germany. In 1970, a German court sentenced him to **life imprisonment for his role in the murder of approximately 400,000 people at Treblinka**.

Stangl died in prison in 1971.

In this video, we uncover **Franz Stangl’s escape from Europe, his years in Syria and Brazil, his Volkswagen employment, his capture, and the trial that finally brought a Treblinka commandant to justice**.

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Chapters
00:00 From Austrian Police to Treblinka
03:19 Treblinka and the 1943 uprising
06:04 Escape to Brazil
08:54 Trial and Testimony

Sources:
Gitta Sereny - Into That Darkness (1974)
Düsseldorf Trial Transcripts (1970) - Treblinka Trials
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM)
Gerald Steinacher - N**is on the Run: How Hi**er's Henchmen Fled Justice (2011)
Yitzhak Arad - Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka: The Operation Reinhard Camps (1987)
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24/08/2026

What Happened to Erwin Rommel's Family After WW2?
What happened to the family of **Field Marshal Erwin Rommel**, Germany’s famous “Desert Fox,” after World War II?

Rommel never lived to see N**i Germany surrender. On **October 14, 1944**, after being accused of involvement in resistance against Hi**er, he was given a brutal choice: face a trial that could endanger his family or take his own life. Rommel chose su***de, while the N**i regime publicly claimed that he had died from wartime injuries. His family knew the truth.

His wife, **Lucie Rommel**, survived the war and lived until 1971. Their only son, **Manfred Rommel**, was just 15 when his father revealed what Hi**er had forced him to do. Near the end of the war, Manfred was captured by French forces and later told Allied authorities the real circumstances surrounding his father’s death.

But Manfred’s story did not end with the war.

He studied law, entered public service, and eventually became one of West Germany’s most respected politicians. From **1974 to 1996**, he served as mayor of Stuttgart, earning a reputation for tolerance, civil liberties, and support for immigrant communities. Remarkably, he also developed friendships with descendants of his father’s former wartime enemies, including the families of **George S. Patton and Bernard Montgomery**.

In this video, we explore **what happened to Erwin Rommel’s wife and son after WW2**, how they lived with the truth about his death, and how Manfred built a completely different legacy in democratic Germany.

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Chapters
00:00 The Ultimatum at Herrlingen
02:47 Revealing the Truth
05:13 Manfred Rommel
07:32 Rommel's First Child
08:47 The Rommel Myth

Sources
Charles F. Marshall - Discovering the Rommel Murder: The Life and Death of the Desert Fox (1994)
Dr. Wolfram Wette — Rommel, Hi**er's Favourite General and Our Democratic Culture of Remembrance (2020)
Maxim Chornyi - ERWIN ROMMEL’S HOUSE IN HERRLINGEN (2019)
Rommel, Manfred — WW2 Gravestone

23/08/2026

The Day Mannerheim Caught Hi**er on Tape
On **June 4, 1942**, Adolf Hi**er made a surprise visit to Finland to congratulate Finnish commander **Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim** on his 75th birthday. What Hi**er did not realize was that part of their private conversation was being recorded.

The result became one of the most extraordinary audio documents of **World War II**.

Finnish broadcasting engineer **Thor Damen** had been recording the official birthday proceedings when Hi**er, Mannerheim, Finnish President Risto Ryti, and Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel moved into a railway carriage for a private conversation. Damen secretly kept the microphone running.

For roughly **17 minutes**, Hi**er spoke without the shouting, theatrical delivery heard in his speeches. Instead, listeners hear a surprisingly calm and conversational voice—making the recording widely regarded as the only surviving example of Hi**er speaking informally in a private setting.

Even more revealing was what Hi**er discussed.

He admitted his astonishment at the enormous number of tanks and military resources possessed by the **Soviet Union**, explaining how badly German intelligence had underestimated Soviet strength before Operation Barbarossa.

Eventually, a German officer noticed the recording equipment and ordered the recording stopped. Remarkably, the Finns preserved the tape.

In this video, we uncover the story of the **secret Hi**er–Mannerheim recording**, how it was captured, what Hi**er revealed about the Eastern Front, and why historians still consider these 17 minutes among the most unusual recordings of the Second World War.

It is Hi**er as the public almost never heard him.

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Chapters
00:00 Born to Serve Two Masters
03:21 The War Nobody Expected
06:00 An Uninvited Guest
08:48 The Exit

Sources:
Jägerskiöld, Stig Axel Fridolf — Mannerheim: Marshal of Finland
YLE (Yleisradio) — Hi**er's Secretly Recorded Conversation in Finland → https://yle.fi/a/20-270673
Trotter, William R. — A Frozen Hell: The Russo-Finnish Winter War of 1939–1940
Encyclopaedia Britannica — Carl Gustaf Mannerheim — biographical overview and dates
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23/08/2026

All of Goebbels's Children Died — His Stepson Inherited a Billion
When **Joseph Goebbels and his wife Magda** died in Hi**er’s Berlin bunker in May 1945, their six young children died with them. But there was another member of Magda’s family who was hundreds of miles away—and survived.

His name was **Harald Quandt**, Magda Goebbels’s son from her first marriage to wealthy German industrialist **Günther Quandt**. This made Harald Joseph Goebbels’s stepson.

While the Goebbels family spent the final days of the Third Reich inside the Führerbunker, Harald was a **German Luftwaffe officer and Allied prisoner of war**. He therefore escaped the horrifying fate of his six younger half-siblings. Joseph and Magda Goebbels killed their children before taking their own lives on May 1, 1945.

After being released from captivity, Harald returned to Germany and entered the Quandt family businesses. When Günther Quandt died in 1954, Harald and his half-brother **Herbert Quandt** inherited major parts of one of Germany’s most powerful industrial empires.

The family’s wealth eventually became enormous. The Quandt dynasty later became closely associated with **BMW**, and subsequent generations have ranked among Germany’s wealthiest families, with fortunes measured in billions.

In this video, we uncover the extraordinary story of **Harald Quandt—the surviving stepson of Joseph Goebbels**, what happened to him after World War II, how he inherited an industrial fortune, and why the Quandt family remains one of Germany’s richest dynasties.

The contrast is astonishing: six children died in Hi**er’s bunker, while their half-brother survived to inherit a fortune.

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Chapters
00:00 Propaganda Family
02:52 Last Days in the Bunker
05:24 Surviving Son
08:05 The Quandt Reckoning

Sources
War History Online — A Fortunate Son: https://www.warhistoryonline.com/feat...
Anja Klabunde — Magda Goebbels (2001)
ARD Documentary — The Silence of the Quandts (2007): https://archive.org/details/the-silen...
History of Sorts — The Murder of the Goebbels Children: https://dirkdeklein.net/2025/05/01/th...
Der Spiegel — Who Really Poisoned the Goebbels Children?: https://www.spiegel.de/international/...
And more...

22/08/2026

What Did German Soldiers Really Think of Soviet Soldiers?
What did **German soldiers really think of Soviet soldiers during World War II**?

When N**i Germany invaded the Soviet Union in **Operation Barbarossa in June 1941**, many German troops entered the campaign influenced by propaganda that portrayed the Red Army as weak, disorganized, and incapable of resisting a modern German offensive.

The battlefield quickly shattered many of those assumptions.

German soldiers encountered Soviet troops who often continued fighting despite enormous losses, encirclement, shortages, and brutal weather. Reports and memoirs frequently describe surprise at the **Red Army’s endurance, determination, and willingness to counterattack**, even after units had suffered devastating casualties.

German troops also learned to respect Soviet weapons. The **T-34 tank**, heavy KV series tanks, powerful artillery, and later massed rocket launchers forced the Wehrmacht to adapt its tactics. Soviet snipers, infantry defenses, and winter warfare also created a very different enemy from those Germany had faced in Western Europe.

But German attitudes were not simply admiration. N**i racial ideology deeply shaped the Eastern Front, and contempt for Soviet soldiers existed alongside growing battlefield respect. The conflict became extraordinarily brutal, with atrocities, starvation, executions, and revenge escalating on both sides.

By 1944 and 1945, the situation had completely reversed. German soldiers who had once expected a quick victory were now facing an increasingly experienced, heavily armed Red Army advancing toward Berlin.

In this video, we explore **what German soldiers thought of Soviet troops**, how those opinions changed from 1941 to 1945, and how the reality of the Eastern Front destroyed many of Germany’s early assumptions.

Chapters
00:00 Propaganda
03:12 Winter
05:47 Stalingrad
08:37 Truth

📚 Sources
Craig Forcese — Prosecuting Kurt Meyer(SSRN, 2020)
Peter Kikkert — Kurt Meyer and Canadian Memory (Canadian Military History, 2015)
Juno Beach Centre: Normandy Massacres
Lackenbauer & Madsen — Kurt Meyer on Trial (2007)
Howard Margolian — Conduct Unbecoming (1998)
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