World War II isn’t a new subject for historian Lynne Olson. But her latest book, The Sisterhood of Ravensbrück, covers the unique story of the war’s only all-female concentration camp. Olson, who ...

Auschwitz concentration camp in Oświęcim (credit ... Then, they snuck into a storage room and were able to steal SS officers' uniforms. Bendera, who already had a copied key thanks to his ...

Sachsenhausen was established in 1936 just north of Berlin as the first new site after Adolf Hitler gave the SS full control of the Nazi concentration camp system. More than 200,000 people were ...

Friedmann was one of the 15,000 children ages 15 and younger held in the Terezin concentration ... Those in the camps then were able to wear their own clothing, not the prisoner uniform seen ...

Murrow walked through the gates of the Nazis' Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany ... "They were in rags and the remnants of uniforms. Death already had marked many of them, but they were ...

On April 29, 1945, when U.S. Army officer Felix Sparks and his men approached Dachau concentration ... and at night in the camps, he’d urged prisoners to recite SS officer’s names and their ...

When they reunite after the war, concentration camp surivor ... similar to one Max gifted her while in the camp, and Max wearing the SS officer uniform he kept for years, the pair drive off ...

There is no doubt that Alderney, while a glorious place to visit, does have a dark past, as is evidenced by the recent discovery of the distinctively striped uniform of a concentration camp inmate ...

A former Nazi death camp secretary who was convicted ... During her trial, the court heard that SS men in white medical uniforms would pose as doctors to measure the height of prisoners.

Berlin — A former Nazi concentration camp guard was sentenced Tuesday to ... saying he never even wore a German uniform. But that account is contested by several historical documents presented ...