Christian Ingrao

The Dirlewanger Brigade was an anti-partisan unit of the Nazi army, reporting directly to Heinrich Himmler. The first members of the brigade were mostly poachers released from prisons and concentration camps, believed to possess the necessary skills for hunting down and capturing partisan fighters in their camps on the Eastern Front. Their numbers quickly grew with others eager for a...

How did the Nazis imagine their victory and the subsequent ‘Thousand-Year Reich’? Between 1939 and 1943, the Nazi imperial Utopia started to take shape in the conquered areas of Eastern Europe. These regions were brutally emptied of their inhabitants, who were displaced, reduced to slavery, and, in the case of the Jews and a considerable number of Slavs, murdered. This...