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Herberts Cukurs, a decorated officer in the Latvian Air Force and renowned pilot, once hailed as a national hero, would later become one of Latvia’s most reviled figures. Following the Nazi invasion and the subsequent collaboration with fascist forces, Cukurs earned the chilling nickname “The Hangman of Riga.” He was held responsible for the extermination…
Introduction During World War II, Klaus Barbie, a notorious Gestapo officer, unleashed terror in Lyon, France, earning himself the chilling moniker “the Butcher of Lyon.” His war crimes included the deportation and torture of countless individuals, particularly Jews and members of the French Resistance. However, Barbie’s reign of terror eventually came to an end thanks…
Introduction During World War II, France witnessed the rise of a heinous individual, Paul Touvier, who would go on to become one of the country’s most notorious war criminals. With a reputation for anti-Semitism and a role in hunting down resistance fighters and Jews, Touvier earned the chilling nickname “Hangman of Lyon.” Despite his atrocities,…
The hunt for Nazi war criminals has been a long and arduous process, with many escaping justice for decades. One such individual was Franz Stangl, a former Austrian police officer turned mass murderer responsible for the genocide of 800,000 people during World War II. The incredible hunt for Stangl, who fled to Brazil following the…
Erich Priebke, one of the highest-ranking Gestapo officers in Rome during the Second World War, was responsible for one of Italy’s worst atrocities, the Ardeatine Cave massacres. On a direct order from Adolf Hitler, Priebke orchestrated the assassination of 335 Italian civilians, including 75 Jews. After the war, Priebke fled to Argentina and lived in…
Dr. Joseph Mengele, also known as the ‘Angel of Death’, was one of the most notorious Nazi war criminals. He is infamous for his sadistic and perverse medical experiments on prisoners at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. After the end of World War II, Mengele escaped to Buenos Aires, where he lived under a false identity…
In 1960, Adolf Eichmann, one of the most notorious Nazi war criminals, was living incognito in Argentina with his family under the alias Riccardo Klement. Eichmann was known as the architect of Hitler’s “final solution” and was directly responsible for the murder of six million Jews. He was now himself a hunted man. Eichmann’s life…
Simon Wiesenthal, one of the most well-known Nazi hunters of the 20th century, once said, “When history looks back, I want people to know that the Nazis could not kill millions of people with impunity.” Wiesenthal dedicated his life to hunting down Nazi war criminals, but he was not the only one. In fact, there…
Learn here a brief overview of the two World Wars, including their causes, major battles, and consequences, highlighting the devastating impact on humanity.