Josias Kumpf, now 83, did active service during the Holocaust as an armed SS guard at three Nazi concentration camps: the Sachsenhausen Camp, slave labor sites in Nazi-occupied France where prisoners built launching platforms for Germany’s V-1 and V-2 rockets that were used in attacks on Britain, and Nazi forced-labor camps for Jews in Trawniki, [...]

The issue of complicity in the crimes of the Holocaust is made even more complicated with the existence of a unit of average middle-aged Germans who became the mass murderers of tens of thousands of Jews. They helped the Holocaust succeed as they were transformed from ordinary men into active criminals. Ordinary Men: Reserve Police [...]

Thalidomide was marketed as a morning sickness medication for pregnant women. The women eventually gave birth to babies without arms and legs. More than 20,000 babies were born with deformities because of the drug. The German pharmaceutical Grünenthal claimed for years that the ‘damned’ drug was discovered by chance. They meant to formulate antihistamine, but [...]

The Jews have always borne the trauma of the Holocaust. The rest of the laymen world defines Judaism in terms of the systematic cleansing of Jews by the Nazis. Visitors to Israel are more interested in stopping over the Holocaust Memorial museum before any place else in the country. The Jews have also been living [...]