During the Second World War, millions of Allied soldiers heard a strange voice on German radio. She spoke perfect American English, joked about home, and warned soldiers they would die far from their families.

Her name was Mildred Gillars — better known as “Axis Sally.” From Berlin she broadcast...

Berlin, 1944. As Allied bombers devastate the capital of Nazi Germany, tension grows inside the Bendlerblock, headquarters of the German Replacement Army. At the centre stands Friedrich Fromm, commander of the Ersatzheer, the organisation responsible for training and supplying millions of German ...

Captured as a Soviet soldier, Ivan Marchenko became one of Treblinka’s most feared guards. Known as “Ivan the Terrible,” he operated gas chambers, beat victims with a water pipe, and committed unspeakable acts of cruelty. Discover how a prisoner of war became a key player in the Holocaust.

The 1930s, the Soviet Union. As Joseph Stalin consolidates power, fear spreads through the Communist Party. Convinced that enemies and conspirators surround him, Stalin launches the Great Purge – a campaign of arrests, torture, and executions that will engulf the entire Soviet state.

At the cent...

On 9 April 1940, Nazi Germany launched Operation Weserübung and invaded Denmark. While the country initially experienced a relatively cooperative occupation, growing resistance and sabotage by 1943 pushed the Gestapo to rely increasingly on Danish collaborators to hunt down opponents of the regim...

Stanisław Kosior was one of the most powerful Communist leaders in the Soviet Union and a key figure behind the policies that led to the Holodomor, the Great Ukrainian Famine of 1932–1933 that killed millions.

As First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine, Kosior helped enforce collectivi...

10 July 1940. As the Battle of Britain begins and Nazi Germany launches a massive aerial assault against the United Kingdom, most Britons stand firm in defiance. Yet not all follow this path. Among those who choose betrayal is Theodore Schurch, a British soldier drawn to fascist ideology long bef...

Early May 1940. Nazi Germany launches its Blitzkrieg across Western Europe, crushing France, Belgium, and the Netherlands in a matter of weeks. As Paris falls and France surrenders, a new reality takes hold—one of occupation, fear, and collaboration.

Amid the chaos, one man makes a choice that w...

Geli Raubal was more than Adolf Hitler’s niece – she was the woman he called his only love and even planned to marry. Under his constant control, she was denied freedom, friends, and dreams. In 1931, her life ended in his apartment under suspicious circumstances. Was it suicide, or did she know t...

The Nuremberg Laws banned Jews and “Aryans” from loving each other. At Auschwitz, Franz Wunsch helped send Jews to the gas chambers — and then fell in love with one of them.

Helena Citrónová, a young Slovak Jewish prisoner, sang at his birthday celebration in 1942. From that moment, a secret and...