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Six children raised as symbols of Nazi family life were murdered by their parents in Hitler’s bunker in May 1945. This article explores who the Goebbels children were, how they lived inside propaganda, and how ideology ultimately destroyed them.

A smiling polar bear posed with soldiers and children in wartime Germany. Made by Steiff to promote Fanta during the Second World War, the costume reveals how normality was staged through advertising, even as violence and persecution shaped daily life.

On 30th January, 1649, England executed its own king. The death of Charles I was the result of civil war, political failure, and an unshakeable belief in divine rule. This is how a monarchy fell on a winter’s afternoon in Whitehall.