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Silent witness: The incredible tale of a 60s supermodel, a German aristocrat, a plot to kill Hitler and a crumbling 300-year-old palace

Silent witness: Set deep in the heart of the Polish lake district of Mazury and originally called Steinort, for 300 years the palace had been a seat of splendour for an aristocratic East Prussian family called von Lehndorff-Steinort. Kalbar/TFN

Behind the walls of this dilapidated old palace in a remote corner of Poland, lies one of the lesser-known intrigues of the 20th century. Left to ruin after WWII, the race is now on to save Sztynort palace. TFN’s Kirsty Hardial and Dagmara Leszkowicz go on the trail of the place that time forgot.

First strike: how the Poles wanted to launch a ‘preventive war’ against Hitler’s Germany

In an interview with historian Marek Kornat TFN learns how Piłsudski tried to get European support for action against Hitler in the early 1930s.

Slovakian Invasion: the long forgotten story of how Slovak troops helped Hitler defeat Poland

It wasn’t just German troops that invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. The Slovaks also got in on the act.

German theatre offers free seats to anyone wearing swastika

A German theatre is under fire for offering free entry to people wearing Swastika armbands to a play called Mein Kampf – and making those who pay for entry wear the Star of David.

Polish police nab Hitler concert organisers

Two neo-Nazis who organised a music festival to mark the anniversary of Adolf Hitler’s birthday have been arrested in Poland.

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