Utterly interesting

In 1942 at Fort Meade, the slight and scholarly Francois d’Eliscu ordered Rangers to charge him with fixed bayonets. Seconds later they were disarmed and pinned with a simple sash cord. Rejecting sporting rules, he taught ruthless, practical hand to hand combat that reshaped American military training during the Second World War.

During the Great Depression, hundreds of thousands of people of Mexican descent were removed from the United States in a campaign now known as the Mexican Repatriation. These stark photographs reveal the human reality behind the immigration raids of the 1930s.

Born into Hitler’s inner circle, Martin Adolf Bormann was raised as a committed young Nazi. After the war he converted to Catholicism, became a priest and missionary, and later spoke publicly about the crimes of the Third Reich. A life shaped by belief rupture and reckoning.