At the gallows on October 16, 1946, the hanging of “Der Stürmer” publisher Julius Streicher did not go as planned. Allegedly, the hangman “botched” the 15-minute execution in order to inflict more ...

(RNS) He was a minister to monsters. That’s what Tim Townsend writes of Henry Gerecke, the Lutheran pastor from Missouri who shepherded six of the most notorious Nazis to the gallows in Mission at ...

Nazi Germany finally surrendered on the 8th of May 1945, bringing an end to the “Thousand Year Reich” 988 years short of its target. But in that historically ...

“Hermann Wilhelm Goering took his life at 10-45 p.m. (local time) on October 15, 1946. The Minister President of Bavaria, Dr Wilhelm Hoogner, and the Chief Prosecutor of Nuremberg, Dr Friedrich ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. The book “Mission at Nuremberg: An American Army Chaplain and the Trial of the Nazis,” by former Post-Dispatch religion writer ...

In the spring of 1945, as Allied troops sifted through the rubble of post-war Berlin, they learned many lessons about how one of the largest killing machines on earth had operated. While Adolf Hitler ...

It has taken almost 60 years, but historians may now have the answer to one of the oldest mysteries concerning the demise of the Third Reich. How did Hermann Goering, the former commander of the ...

Nazi Germany finally surrendered on the 8th of May 1945, bringing an end to the “Thousand Year Reich” 988 years short of its target. But in that historically ...