The Nazi clock that might have ticked away Hitler’s last hours

October 9th, 2009 LONDON - Adolf Hitler's dental fillings were made from gold torn from the mouths of Jews in Nazi concentration camps, reveals a new book on the German dictator.he revelation comes after a newly discovered document showed that Hitler's dentist had about 11lbs of dental gold from the concentration camps at his disposal for the treatment of senior Nazis. The new book, titled 'Was Hitler Ill?' was co-authored by Henrik Eberle- a historian who has written several successful books on the Nazi leader and Hans-Joachim Neumann- a professor of medicine at Berlin's Charite University.

September 28th, 2009 LONDON - German dictator Adolf Hitler's suicide in his Berlin bunker is being disputed by some American researchers who claim that a bullet-punctured skull, which has long been thought to belong to the Nazi leader, was actually that of an unknown woman. Kept in Russia's federal archives, the four-inch skull fragment has a hole where a bullet reportedly passed through Hitler's left temple when he shot himself.

September 15th, 2009 LONDON - Two Belgian 'Hitler-hunters' claim to have traced 39 relatives of the Fuhrer in Austria and the US. Journalist Jean-Paul Mulders and historian Marc Vermeeren say that they pinned down on Hitler's kin by matching the DNA of the Nazi leader to discarded cigarette butts in an Austrian village, a used paper napkin from a New York restaurant, and letters sent from France three decades ago.

September 3rd, 2009 LONDON - Scientists and artists are planning to build a 40m-wide lunar clock by the River Thames by the year 2012. According to a report by BBC News, the aim is to create a new London landmark close to the proposed Olympic stadium as a monument to a more natural way of marking time.

August 17th, 2009 LONDON - The Vatican's official newspaper has accused Britain and the United States of having detailed knowledge of Hitler's plans to exterminate Jews, but failed to stop it. The L'Osservatore Romano claims in a report that authorities in Washington and London ignored, downplayed or even suppressed intelligence reports about the Nazis' extermination plans.

August 5th, 2009 LONDON - The plans of Germany's pro-Hitler party to open a Third Reich-style "youth camp" in a small village have been scrapped by a court ruling, which directed Neo-Nazis to evict the hotel premises. A court in Lower Saxony cleared the way for the debt-ridden hotel owner Jens Wilhelm to throw out the Neo-Nazis, who had been occupying the premises amid a tense standoff with police and local anti-Nazi protesters, The Telegraph reports.

July 17th, 2009 LONDON - German prosecutors have launched an investigation into whether a garden gnome with its right arm raised in a Heil Hitler salute breaks the law. According to The Times, the golden gnome has gone on display at an art gallery in Nuremberg, the Bavarian city that hosted huge Nazi party rallies before the Second World War and the major war crimes trials afterwards.alter Traeg, a spokesman for the Nuremberg public prosecutors office, said that investigators had to ascertain whether the gnome breached post-War laws banning Hitler salutes and other Nazi symbols.

May 29th, 2009 Facts about Big BenSome facts about Big Ben, the celebrated London clock that celebrates its 150th anniversary Sunday. THE BELL: Strictly speaking, the name "Big Ben" applies only to the bell, although nearly everyone uses the name to describe the clock tower that houses it.

May 19th, 2009 LONDON - Oscar winning actor Sean Penn is set to play a Nazi-hunting rockstar in a new movie. The 'Milk' star is in talks to headline Italian director Paolo Sorrentino's first English-language film 'This Must Be the Place' and is slated to play a wealthy, retired rocker who embarks on a quest to find the German officer who executed his father, reports contactmusic.com.

May 10th, 2009 LONDON - A self-portrait by Adolf Hitler, which sold at an auction for 10,000 pounds - ten times its reserve price, is now being denounced as fake. When the painting, signed "A.

April 24th, 2009 LONDON - A self-portrait by Adolf Hitler has fetched 10,000 pounds at an auction. The watercolour is thought to be one of the Nazi leader's earliest works.

April 17th, 2009 LONDON - Researchers studying ultra-cold atoms have made a clock that takes 300 million years to lose just one second. The atomic clock, which is twice as accurate as any similar device made previously, may believably turn out to be useful for measuring distances to far away galaxies, or for tracking tiny movements in the Earth's crust that may give a warning of earthquakes.

April 15th, 2009 LONDON - A collection of Nazi women's magazines featuring knitting patterns, fashion advice, and at the same time blaming the British for WWII are set to be auctioned. The Frauen Warte, literally translated as Women Wait, had been designed for German housewives.

March 26th, 2009 LONDON - A self-portrait of Adolf Hitler is to go under the hammer. The Nazi leader is hardly recognisable with no moustache in the picture which is thought to be the first he ever painted.

December 30th, 2008 LONDON - Hollywood superstar Tom Cruise has got an unexpected boost for his role as a Nazi assassin in the movie 'Valkyrie' after the film won over German critics who had protested during its filming. Cruise plays injured World War II Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, who led a plot to assassinate Nazi leader Adolf Hitler in 1944.