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The Nazi Spy Tactic That Almost Destroyed Britain's Economy

The German army's Operation Bernhard sought to flood the British economy with counterfeit bills.
Lizzie Philip January 9, 2019
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What Does This Alien Minor Planet Look Like?

A peanut? Or maybe a bowling pin?
Jessica Leigh Hester January 3, 2019
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The Spy Tactic That Almost Destroyed WWII Britain

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Saltwood Castle.
Hythe, England

Saltwood Castle

This Norman castle has been the scene of assassination plots, religious persecution, and Nazi conspiracies throughout its long history.
Zossen, Germany

Winkel Towers of Zossen

Several of these strange cone-shaped bunkers can still be seen around the former Nazi headquarters.
A partial model of the Deutsches Stadium, 1937.
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The Nazis Tried and Failed to Build the World’s Largest Stadium

The remains of the giant test model are now overgrown on a hillside near Nuremberg.
Sarah Laskow September 21, 2018
The memorial.
Athens, Greece

Gestapo Interrogation Memorial

The site where hundreds of Greeks were tortured by the Nazi secret police is now a cosmetics store.
Exterior of the hotel
La Falda, Argentina

Hotel Edén

This magnificent abandoned hotel has long been haunted by its Nazi past.
Frankfurt, Germany

IG Farben Haus

From Nazi chemicals to the CIA, this architectural marvel has played a fascinating role in German history.
Permanently Closed
The ovens.
Oranienburg, Germany

Abandoned SS Brotfabrik

A crumbling bakery where forced laborers from the nearby concentration camp toiled to feed their fellow prisoners and Nazi soldiers.
Irlavas pagasts, Latvia

Bridge to Nowhere

A railway bridge leading nowhere stands lonely in the middle of a meadow.
Bullet holes in the church.
Prague, Czechia

The Heydrich Terror Memorial

Bullet holes in the church wall are a reminder of the violence that followed the assassination of a high-ranking Nazi officer.
Castle Itter.
Itter, Austria

Castle Itter

German and American troops joined forces to defend this fortress during the strangest battle of World War II.
A propaganda image from 1933 claimed to show Hitler enjoying an Eintopf meal—though in real life he seldom ate meat.
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The Forgotten Nazi History of ‘One-Pot Meals’

Officials believed the stews and soups had the power to unite Germany.
Natasha Frost April 12, 2018
The film has been painstakingly digitally restored over many thousands of hours.
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The Rediscovery of a 1920s Silent Film Predicting the Rise of Nazism

"The City Without Jews" is returning to cinemas for the first time in decades.
Natasha Frost April 2, 2018
Food was airdropped in April, ending the hunger winter.
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How Famine Under the Nazis Revealed the Cause of Celiac Disease

A food shortage helped one doctor prove his theory.
Anne Ewbank March 29, 2018
The Iron Cross.
Roswell, New Mexico

POW Iron Cross

The symbol was surreptitiously built into the river bank by German prisoners of war.
Germany declares war on the United States in 1941.
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The Novel That Imagined a Nazi Future, Before WWII Even Began

In the long-forgotten "Swastika Night," Hitler is a god, women are subhuman, and love is dead.
Sarah Laskow January 24, 2018