Recently declassified documents reveal that Adolf Hitler had a chilling plan to launch nuclear strikes against the Soviet Union in June 1945. A close associate of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels testified that Germany was developing atomic bombs and intended to use them against Soviet military centers. However, the plan
Col. Gen. Aleksandr Bezverkhniy, a former Russian counterspy chief, has revealed how Hitler attempted to assassinate Stalin through an operation called “Zeppelin.” The operation involved Nazi Germany’s attempt to recruit Soviet citizens and use them against the USSR.
The Nazis’ extermination program was carried out in the name of eugenics – but they were by no means the only advocates of racial purification. In this extract from his extraordinary book, Edwin Black describes how American Eugenics Movement inspired Hitler. These deadly theories were prevalent among the high circles