Hitler: Germany's soccer coach?

Believe it or not, one in 20 schoolchildren in Britain thinks that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler was Germany's football team coach.

Not only this, a survey has also revealed that one in six youngsters believes Auschwitz is a World War II theme park while one in 20 thinks that the Holocaust was a celebration at the end of the war, the British media reported.

Twelve per cent even believe Mc¬Donald’s Golden Arches are a symbol of Remembrance Day and 40 per cent don't know it falls on November 11, according to the survey.

A study by war veterans' charity Erskin asked 2,000 children aged nine to 15 about both world wars -- a quarter thought a nuclear bomb was dropped on Pearl Harbour and one in 10 thought the SS was Enid Blyton's Secret Seven.

Interestingly, one in 12 believed the Blitz was a huge clean-up operation in Europe after the Second World War, the survey has found. Advertisement

Hitler's birthplace to go on sale with £2m price tag

The present owner of the house in Austria where Adolf Hitler was born is planning to put it up for sale at a starting price of above 2 million pounds, it has emerged.

However, local authority in Braunau-am-Inn intends to oppose the sale to private individuals, as it fears extreme right-wingers could buy it.

Braunau mayor Gerhard Skiba suggested that the best deal would be for the town to purchase it, but unfortunately the city coffers do not have enough money to buy Salzburger Vorstadt 15.

Skiba has asked help, on behalf of the town, from the government in Vienna to buy the property, reports a news daily.

Also, historians are suggesting turning the house into a museum Advertisement

Here's what Hitler called the British PM

The first chief of British intelligence agency, MI5, had conveyed the gravity of a Nazi threat to Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain Hitlerby saying that Hitler called him "a*******", a new book has revealed.

Written by Cambridge historian Professor Christopher Andrew, The Defence Of The Realm is the first of its kind book which reveals the secrets of 100 years of obscure world of spying in Britain.

The book, which was released to mark the centenary of the founding of MI5, also discloses that three Labour MPs worked for Eastern Bloc intelligence agencies in the 1960s, including John Stonehouse who gained notoriety for faking his own death in a bid to start a new life in Australia, Sky News reports.

The book tracks down MI5’s early days of hunting German spies before the First World War to current operations against al-Qaeda.

The report quoted former MI5 director-general Sir Stephen Lander as terming its publication as a unique event.

Sir Stephen, who decided to commission the book after the 9/11 attacks, said no other major intelligence agency had opened up its files to an independent historian in this way.

According to him, the objective behind the publication was that the advent of al Qaeda-inspired terrorism meant the help of the public was needed more than ever.

"It is quite clear within the service that our world has changed fundamentally. The suicide bomber is a different order of threat to the IRA,” he said. "Reaching out - beyond the myths and misunderstandings - to the public was one of the motivations.” Advertisement