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Une nouvelle ère commence : lorsqu’à Cologne en octobre 1872 l’ingénieur en métallurgie Julius Buch décide d’ouvrir une usine dans la Sarre, il est loin d’imaginer qu’il écrit ainsi la première page de l’histoire de la sidérurgie à Völklingen, une histoire...

« Cher Theodor, hier, j’ai acheté pour 270 000 marks les aciéries de Völklingen…» C’est par cette missive que le 27 août 1881, Carl Röchling informe son frère Theodor au fief familial de Sarrebruck qu’il vient d’acheter les aciéries désaffectées de Völklingen...

11 NOVEMBRE - Quelle est l’origine de cette fête marquée par un jour férié ? Qu'avez-vous encore à découvrir sur le 11 novembre 1918 ? Quels autres évènements sont liés à cette date ? Linternaute.com vous replonge dans l'histoire. En France, le 11 novembre...

Gustav Wagner, Deputy Commandant of Sobibor, ordered the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Jews as chief of the selections. He was sentenced to death in absentia by the Nuremberg Tribunal, but escaped with Franz Stangl with the help of the Vatican to...

On September 6, 1965, eleven of the SS men who had served at the Sobibor Extermination Camp were brought to trial, accused of crimes against humanity for the atrocities committed at the camp. The proceedings took place in Hagen, West Germany, and concluded...

After World War Two, Nazi war criminals were tried in courts around Europe. Most defendants denied they had carried out any crimes or claimed they were only “following orders.” One of the few who did express remorse was SS Staff Sergeant Karl Frenzel,...

Journal français fondé en 1902 par Gustave Téry. À partir de 1918, le journal s'oriente vers la gauche radicale, socialiste et anticléricale. En 1940, avec Marcel Déat, l'Œuvre devient l'un des organes de la collaboration avec l'Allemagne. Il cessera...

Homme politique français (Brest 1890-Paris 1944). Il fut en 1936 l'un des fondateurs de la Cagoule. Fondateur, avec Marcel Déat, du Rassemblement national populaire (1941), il fut abattu en 1944 dans des circonstances mal élucidées.

Écrivain français (Paris 1893-Paris 1945). Drieu la Rochelle a son bureau rue des archives Hanté depuis l'enfance par le suicide (le Feu follet, 1931), blessé à la guerre (Comédie de Charleroi, 1934), déçu par les femmes (Gilles, 1939), hostile au machinisme...

Armistice signé le 22 juin 1940 dans une clairière de la forêt de Compiègne, proche de la gare de Rethondes. Le maréchal Pétain, chargé de former le cabinet après la démission de Paul Raynaud, demande par l'intermédiaire de l'Espagne l'armistice aux Allemands...

La déclaration de la guerre a lieu le 3 septembre 1939 mais est prolongée par une longue période d’attente de l’attaque : la drôle de guerre, seulement interrompue par la bataille de Narvik en Norvège en avril 1940. Les hostilités entre la France et l’Allemagne...

Homme politique français (Barcelonnette 1878-Neuilly 1966). Plusieurs fois ministre sous la IIIe République, notamment des Finances (1938-1940), il opère un net redressement de la situation financière du pays. Partisan d'une politique de fermeté à l'égard...

The "Final Solution of the Jewish Question" (in German "Endlö-sung der Judenfrage") was the Nazi plan for the extermination of the Jews. Rooted in 19th-century antisemitic discourse on the "Jewish question," "Final Solution" as a Nazi cover term denotes...

This English text of the original German Wannsee Protocol is based on the official U.S. government translation prepared for evidence in the Nuremberg trials . Revisions to the Nuremberg text were made for clarification and correction. The revisions were...

SS-Gruppenführer Otto Hofmann of Nazi Germany's “Race and Settlement Main Office,” was present at the Wannsee Conference planning the Holocaust against the Jews.

Heinrich Mueller was the last chief of the Gestapo and a major Nazi war criminal. His fate after World War II - unknown for decades despite multiple investigations - was confirmed in October 2013 when evidence surfaced that he had been buried in a mass...

In 1934 Adolf Eichmann was appointed to the Jewish section of the "security services" of the SS. From then on he became deeply involved with the formulation and operation of the "final solution to the Jewish question". He drew up the idea of deportation...

SS Lieutenant-Colonel who was Chief of the Jewish Office of the Gestapo during World War II and implemented the 'Final Solution' which aimed at the total extermination of European Jewry, Adolf Eichmann was born in Solingen, Germany, on March 19, 1906. The...

In a time of barbarity, Reinhard Tristan Heydrich, “the Hangman,” stood out as one of the cruelest and most brutal mass murderers in Nazi Germany. Those who worked Heydrich feared him, as did those who were unfortunate enough to be under his control....

In August 1931, the Nazi Party decided to have its own intelligence and security body. Heinrich Himmler therefore created the SD (Sicherheitsdienst). Reinhard Heydrich was appointed head of the organization and it was kept distinct from the uniformed...

Dr. Martin Luther was an early member of the Nazi Party, in which he served as an advisor to Foreign Minister Joachim Von Ribbentrop, first in the Ribbentrop Bureau, then in the Foreign Ministry when von Ribbentrop replaced Konstantin von Neurath. In...

Roland Freisler was born in Germany in 1893. He joined the German Army and during the First World War he was captured by the Russian Army and was a prisoner of war. On his return to Germany he joined the German Communist Party. After studying at university...

Dr. Alfred Meyer was a Nazi official, achieving the rank of Staatssekretär and Deputy Reichsminister in the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories (Reichministerium für die Besetzten Ostgebiete or Ostministerium). He was born in Göttingen,...

Georg Leibbrandt was a scholar and politician in the Nazi Party. Born to ethnic German parents in Torosovo (also called Hoffnungsfeld), near Odessa, in the Zebrikovo district of the Ukraine. It is probable, during his lifetime, he was the world's foremost...

Dr. Josef Bühler joined the NSDAP (Nazi Party) in 1922. He was one of the members of the attempted Nazi putsch in Munich on November 9, 1923. Buhler worked as a lawyer in partnership with Dr. Hans Frank, who was Adolf Hitler's attorney. When the Nazis...