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Shot more than a dozen times and always walking away, Jack “Legs” Diamond became the most notoriously unkillable gangster of Prohibition. Until one night in Albany in 1931, when his luck finally ran out.

The Lebensborn programme promised care and security but hid a brutal reality. This deep dive explores how the SS attempted to reshape motherhood through selective breeding, child kidnapping, and forced Germanisation, and how its victims live with the consequences today.

Thelma Todd was one of early Hollywood’s brightest comic stars. In 1935, she was found dead in her car at just 29. Officially ruled accidental, her death remains surrounded by contradictions, powerful figures, and unanswered questions.