Plans for the Anschluss of Switzerland during the Second World War

Since 1933, when Adolf Hitler became the Chancellor of Germany, to the end of World War II the independence of Switzerland was constantly threatened. Nazi propaganda from the beginning talked about the unification of the German peoples under the banners of the Third Reich. However, Swiss neutrality gave the Germans such great material benefits that it ultimately stopped them before the execution of the annexation plans.

“Records of witchcraft trials” From the State Archives in Poznań. The founders of the team, the process of its formation, the structure and usefulness for research into witch-hunts

The file of witchcraft trials from the State Archives in Poznań was created by a special section of the SS, the so-called Hexen-Sonderkommando in 1935–1944. Despite some shortcomings and the passage of time, the file still has a scientific value.