For “The Hangman and His Wife,” her biography of the prominent Nazi Reinhard Heydrich, Nancy Dougherty interviewed his widow. By Daphne Merkin When you purchase an independently reviewed book through ...

There are few buildings in Prague that are more impressive than the Wallenstein Palace. Built in the 17th century, it is a huge and sumptuous Baroque edifice. Now housing the Czech Senate, the ...

HE MIGHT WELL have been the cruelest among the many cruel National Socialist leaders. He hated, with a nearly unparalleled passion, all Jews; Gypsies; homosexuals; the Catholic church, and ...

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THE LIBERATION OF the Nazi concentration camps at the end of World War II gave the world a new atlas of atrocity. Ever since, place names such as Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen have been synonyms for ...

Alois Denemarek (left) and Jan Kubis were childhood friends and fellow resistance activists People in the Czech Republic are marking the seventieth anniversary of the assassination of Reinhard ...

Unknown perpetrators opened the unmarked grave of senior SS officer Reinhard Heydrich, one of the main architects of the Holocaust, in Berlin. According to preliminary information, nothing was removed ...