WW2

Was Sweden Actually Neutral in WW2?

In the late 1930s and early 1940s, the bloody trauma of World War I was still lingering in Europe’s collective memory. It should be no surprise, then, that many countries wanted nothing to do with another conflict.  Switzerland, Sweden, Belgium, Norway, Denmark, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and the Netherlands declared their neutrality to keep the war …

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Irma Grese: The Hyena of Auschwitz

Following the Second World War, war crimes trials were held to bring the architects of WW2 and the Holocaust to justice.  Inside a courtroom in Luneburg, the Belsen Trials took place  that sought to deal with the SS men and women of the Belsen concentration camp.  Many of these guards had committed horrendous crimes, but …

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