The enduring mystery of Hitler&#;s monkeys
Despite the best efforts of the British intelligence service at the time, and historians today, a mysterious detail of World War II history remains unsolved. What happened to a group of monkeys imported into Germany?
During World War II, intelligence agencies the world over monitored all the doings of the Axis powers, from diplomatic overtures to attempts to acquire supplies. Towards the end of the war, the leaders of the Manhattan Project were very concerned that the German government had acquired all the raw elements necessary to make an atomic bomb. The beginning of the war saw a more puzzling acquisition &#; one that remains a mystery to this day.
In , the German government snatched up a huge amount of monkeys. They acquired a few barbary apes from northern Africa, and a thousand rhesus monkeys. Rhesus monkeys, which are common across southeast Asia, are often used in labs, as they&#;re easy to care for and are in many ways biologically analogous to humans. The importation of such a large number of animals by a nation at war alarmed the British. They called in an MI5 weapons expert, Lord Victor Rothschild, to assess the threat
Tim Kazurinsky is an American actor and screenwriter known for his tenure as both a writer and featured player on Saturday Night Live () and for his role as Officer Sweetchuck in the Police Academy film series.
On SNL, Kazurinsky played many recurring characters such as Dr. Jack Badofsky on Weekend Update, Madge the Chimp's husband in "I Married A Monkey", and Mr. Landlord opposite Eddie Murphy's "Mr. Robinson." His range of celebrity impersonations included everyone from Mahatma Gandhi and Adolf Hitler to Ozzy Osbourne and Billie Jean King. As part of the writing team, Kazurinsky received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Writing in a Variety or Music Program.
Kazurinsky is a mainstay of the Chicago theatre scene, and has twice been nominated for the Joseph Jefferson Award. In addition to his extensive work as a member of The Second City, Mr. Kazurinsky has appeared onstage in A Midsummer Night's Dream with Chicago Shakespeare Theater, in Hairspray at Drury Lane Theatre, and in Northlight Theatre's The Odd Couple and Funnyman.
Kazurinsky's many televi
Age of extremes
Few names from history inspire such immediate and emphatic revulsion as that of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. His hands are stained with the blood of millions killed in the devastation of the Second World War and the horror of the Holocaust.
But Hitler was not born a brutal tyrant, he became one. Explore Hitler's life and discover the road that led to destruction.
Apr
Birth and childhood
Adolf Hitler was born on 20 April in the small Austrian town of Braunau am Inn, in Upper Austria on the Austrian-German border.
His father, Alois, was a customs official while his mother, Klara, came from a poor peasant family. Life was financially comfortable for the Hitler family but Alois was a domineering character and young Adolf frequently found himself on the wrong side of his father's short temper. At primary school Hitler was a clever, popular child. At secondary school he withdrew psychologically, preferring to re-enact battles from the Boer War than study. He left school with no qualifications at
Feb
Down and out in Vienna
Hitler dreamt of a career as an artist. His father had rejected the idea but after he died in Hitle
Hitler: A Biography
A very long, hard, incredibly gruelling slog; and a tome that has worked its way through me as much as I’ve worked my way through it. Despite all the work involved, however, (or perhaps because of it) it is no exaggeration to say that this biography has easily been one of the most important books of my reading journey so far. I’ve carried it around Europe with me over the last two and a half months and it has seen, first-hand, most of the major cities once embroiled in Hitler’s sordid (albeit epic) life. It has seen the hallmarks of bomb damage and many of the countless memorials constructed in the wake of his increasingly frenzied and decoupled descent into destruction. I’m slightly embarrassed to admit that when I finally finished it this morning, back home on my bed, I closed my Kindle in a complete flood of tears, tears which came entirely at odds with Kershaw’s deliberately emotionless academic prose, and which caught me by surprise. The weight of history felt crushing. I think, even now, at the very end of my twenties, I’m still trying to grasp the towering magnitude and meaning of World War II (despite its extremely pot
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