21 leading Nazis were given IQ tests at Nuremberg. The average score was 128. The smartest Nazi was Hjalmar Schacht, a key resistance fighter who was acquitted on all charges. He scored 143.
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The Ritchie Boys was a group of…
The Ritchie Boys was a group of German-born Jews who fled their homeland, came to America, and then joined the U.S. Army to use their knowledge of the German language and culture to return to Europe and fight Nazism.
Yaphank, NY, is a town where certain ….
Yaphank, NY, is a town where certain plots of land required the owners to be of German descent and hosted many German-American Bund rallies. The property rules existed into the 2000s, when they were finally sued under Fair Housing doctrine.
Wearing paper clips was a symbol…
Wearing paper clips was a symbol of rejecting Nazi ideals and racism during WWII.
Ingeborg Rapoport is the oldest person…
Ingeborg Rapoport is the oldest person to ever receive a regular Doctorate degree. She submitted her thesis on diphteria in Nazi Germany 1937 but was refused oral examination because she was jewish. She successfully defended her thesis 2015 at the age of 102.
In 1936 part-time inventor Anton Loibl…
In 1936 part-time inventor Anton Loibl, a Nazi, and Hitler’s chauffeur, invented bicycle reflectors. The SS went into business with him. The Nazis then brought in traffic laws requiring all bicycles to have reflectors, creating a cash windfall for the SS.
The Nazi Sieg Heil was…
The Nazi Sieg Heil was ridiculed by some people. Since “heil” is also the imperative of the German verb “heilen” (“to heal”), a common joke in Nazi Germany was to reply with “Is he sick?”, “Am I a doctor?”, or “You heal him!”
Hitler used the phrase, “Lügenpresse”…
Hitler used the phrase, “Lügenpresse” to accuse the media outlets who were unsupportive of the Nazi party of false reporting.
In the 1950s more…
In the 1950s, more than 77% of all German government officials and judges were (former) nazis, which is an even higher percentage than during the actual Third Reich itself.
Hitler’s deputy Rudolph Hess spent the last 20 years…
Hitler’s deputy Rudolph Hess spent the last 20 years of his life as the sole prisoner in a jail designed to hold 600 inmates. After Hess finally died in 1987 at a very old age, the British Military authorities had the prison torn down so it would not become any type of shrine to Fascism. On the same site a shopping centre was built.