Tag: Nazi Records and research‘Decided to cancel at last minute to save snarl from Uncle Joe’: How VE Day became VE DayFriday 8 May 2020Friday 8 May marks the 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe (VE) Day –...Records and researchSex, Spies and another Scandal: the other Profumo affairTuesday 28 November 2017At the height of the Profumo affair, the greatest British political scandal of the...Records and researchIn recognition of suffering: compensating victims of Nazi persecutionTuesday 21 March 2017These files offer an insight into the Anglo-German compensation agreement but also unlock personal...Records and researchWhat happened to refugees and Displaced Persons after the Holocaust?Friday 27 January 2017What happened to the millions of people liberated from camps and ghettos across Nazi-occupied...Records and researchShot at the TowerMonday 15 August 201675 years ago Josef Jakobs was shot by firing squad - the last person...Records and researchLászló von Almásy: the real ‘English patient’Friday 22 July 2016Some of the true stories behind 'The English Patient' are much more entertaining than...Records and researchHow were British victims of Nazi persecution compensated?Thursday 31 March 2016In 1964, the West German state agreed to provide the British government with £1...Records and research‘Death by hanging’: the Nuremberg TrialsFriday 20 November 2015‘Nicht schuldig.’ (Not guilty.) These two German words pronounced somewhat defiantly, and almost flippantly,...Records and research‘To those who forgive and forget too quickly…’Tuesday 27 January 2015Like many French people of my generation, I’ve grown up amidst war stories –...Records and researchIn Bruges: art looted by the NazisThursday 4 December 2014Inspired by a recent team visit to Bruges as a place of historical interest, and...