Papal Escape Plan From the Nazis Revealed
What do you do when the Nazis are coming? Go to Portugal, apparently. That was the plan for the Vatican when Germans were coming with the intent on kidnapping the pope, according to Telegraph. In...
View ArticleFinally! Lazy, Good-For-Nothing Roswell Aliens Cough Up Graphene
Back when I was a younger pup, I used to be interested in all manner of weird phenomena, ghosts especially, and I figured I would grow up to go study at Duke’s now-defunct school of parapsychology....
View ArticleThe Inglourious Leni Riefenstahl
I saw Tarantino’s “Inglourious Basterds” yesterday, and I’m still thinking about it. I keep picturing red — red dress, red lipstick, red blood. I also mentally checked off all the Nazi and...
View ArticleReason No. 4,599,032,433 to Hate the Nazis: A Very Swastika Christmas
Everybody hates the Nazis. Except, of course, neo-Nazis, and everybody else hates them too. The reasons are pretty much endless: the Holocaust, the horrific medical experiments, the ones who got away...
View ArticleThis Week in History Podcasts: One King Joined Hitler, One Defied Alexander...
The Duke and Duchess of Windsor with Adolf Hitler in Germany (Keystone/Getty Images) Last week, Sarah and I talked about Wallis Simpson and the abdication crisis on the podcast, so this week we thought...
View ArticleEugenics is Alive and Well; Kind of Turned on Head by Voluntary Human...
Smoke pours from the chimney to the incinerator at Hadamar, a mental institution that became a killing center for the Nazi euthanasia program. At Stuff You Should Know, it is our goal to give everybody...
View ArticleNazi Soap Made from Holocaust Victims Gets You the Opposite of Clean
I spent five weeks of my 20s driving around the U.S., living in a van. It was cool. One of the many things that I learned from that trip — including that there are a surprising number of gas stations...
View ArticleHistory Podcast Roundup: A Stolen Room and the Great High King
Sarah and I started off “Who stole the Amber Room?” with a discussion of American Girl dolls, mainly because we talk about them much more often than you’d think two 20somethings would, but also because...
View ArticleHow Rule Nazis Work – the people who use rules to make others miserable
Everyone has heard of the Grammar Nazi. A Grammar Nazi is a person who has taken the rules of grammar deeply to heart, and who then uses those rules mercilessly when other people fail to obey. The...
View ArticleIn Search of the Ghoulish Work of Japan’s Unit 731
(Getty Images) There was something about the moment in human history that encapsulated World War II where the idea of vivisecting humans seemed appealing to a lot of people around the world. Either...
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