Czech city of Brno remembers death march of Sudenten Germans
[Via] Brno, Czechoslovakia’s second largest city, has commemorated and apologised for a ‘death march’ which took place in the city in May 1945. At the…
Queen’s First Visit to Nazi Concentration Camp
The Queen is expected to pay a reflective and commemorative visit to the sites of Nazi death camp at Bergen-Belsen. British troops defeated the SS…
VE Day was the start of a Cold War battle for Lithuania
A military parade during celebrations in the Soviet Union in 1983 of the anniversary of the October Revolution, via Wikipedia Even though VE Day marked…
Vietnam war Reenactment – a documentary about war mockers
War games make sense, conducted to reenact the war scenarios to provide the troops with an opportunity to assess their abilities and skills. These war…
Hitlers Horses from the New Reich Chancellery recovered by German Authorities
Image via Wikipedia After decades of disappearance in the complex and in some cases impenetrable art black market, some historical relics belonging to Adolf Hitler’s Third…
How the movie ‘The Downfall’ changed the way we think about evil
Without a doubt, acting is an art; the best among the lot is the one who could literally immerse in the character he/she is trying…
40 Facts about the Dunkirk Evacuation of WW2
The end of May, early June 1940, 75 years ago in the early days of the Second World War, the most amazing rescue mission took…
Operation Semut – most successful stealth operation of the Second World War
[Via] Jonathan Tredrea, 95, is one of the eight parachuters who landed from a plane in Barion on March 25, 1945 to the surprise of…
Remains of a Canadian Soldier from WWII discovered in Netherlands
Pte. Albert Laubenstein appears in this undated photo [Via] The remains of a Canadian soldier who died during Second World War has been recovered and…
Dunkirk boats sail back in 75th anniversary commemorations
On the 75th anniversary of the evacuation of Dunkirk, some of the original wooden boats that went over to rescue the Allied soldiers from France…
British World War Two veterans returned to Arnhem for commemorations
[Via] London taxi drivers, or ‘cabbies’ as they are known, have joined together to organise a trip to Arnhem in the Netherlands for a group…
Operation Manna – how Allied airforces saved millions of Dutch people from certain death
The date was 29th April 1945; a teenage girl along with 12 other people was in hiding from German troops. She was frightened, trembling with…