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Historians unearth the lost secrets of Hitler’s Wolf Lair fruit and veg plot

More than just a bunker: the Wolf’s Lair also boasted its own vegetable garden. Tomasz Waszczuk/PAP

New excavations at Hitler’s Wolf Lair reveal just what the infamous dictator munched his way through for much of the war.

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

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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History

EXCLUSIVE: 'My mum was kidnapped by Hitler's SS!'

During WW II, the Germans kidnapped up to 200,000 ‘racially suitable’ Polish children for adoption by senior Nazis. In a harrowing, exclusive interview, TFN speaks to the son of one of the ‘Lebensborn’. What makes his story unusual though, is that with no real family of her own in Poland, Dariusz Dziekan’s mother quickly got back in contact with her German adopted mother after the war and Dziekan grew up knowing this woman simply as Grandma.

The first report:

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Exclusive

Vanishing lives: Descendants of 17th century bearded radicals who fled to Poland from Russia to avoid religious persecution are now facing a new crisis as their numbers slowly dwindle out

It is easy to miss their presence - the three-barred crosses, the wooden banyas and the modest churches – unless you know what to look for. TFN travelled to the regions of Mazury and Suwalszczyzna in north-east Poland to track down the Old Believers, a minority which has almost disappeared, yet which still lingers among the hills, fields and virgin forests in the land of a thousand lakes.

Dan Session
Today we take a look at the Polish musicians who have been recording for ECM.
Why So Serious?
Sergiusz takes a look at two of Poland’s phenomenal female writers.

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  • 21/04 March of the Living to be held on April 21
  • 29/07 - 15/11 Epic Polish painting to be exhibited at National Gallery in London
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