Ian Harvey

Ian Harvey is one of the authors writing for WAR HISTORY ONLINE

Articles by Ian Harvey:

Popular culture takes pot-shots at Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler, Nazi dictator and responsible for igniting World War Two, remains to this day one of the most hated figures in the world. Popular…

6 Decisive Battles of World War Two you may not have heard of!

little known battles

During World War Two, there were so many battles and small confrontations that took place between the Allies and the Axis countries. Only those which…

The photographs Hitler wanted to ban from the world – Reproduced in a new book

propaganda book

Adolf Hitler certainly did not like all of the photographs that were taken of him. So much so that if he thought a photograph was…

Goebbels’ descendents sue for war-time diary royalties

Goebbels

A biography detailing the life of Nazi party leader Joseph Goebbels is now under scrutiny by his family, who are looking to sue the publisher…

Why Bergen-Belsen’s 1945 liberation is ingrained in British memory

Bergen-Belsen

[Via] Bergen-Belsen concentration camp was the only camp to be liberated by British troops towards the end of World War Two. After 70 years since…

Men are more likely to kill Hitler than women

In recent years researchers have been undertaking more and more studies about the decisions humans make when it comes to moral dilemmas. Most studies show…

Brazil’s World War Two rubber workers demand compensation

A World War Two shortage of rubber ensured that thousands of Brazilian workmen were forced to undertake dangerous rubber extraction from the Brazilian Amazon forest.…

WWII Butcher of Plaszow’s grand-daughter comes to terms with her heritage

Plaszow

Born in 1970, Jennifer Teege, was sent to an orphanage and has since then known little about her real parents or family. While Jennifer had…

Extensive D-Day training and preparations revealed

D-Day training

The D-Day landings [Via] A Scottish castle in the far north of the UK is a little known hero in the preparations for the D-Day…

13 minutes earlier and Hitler would have been dead

13 minutes

There were many assassination attempts on Hitler from the time he began to rise in Germany’s political scene in the early 1930s, all the way…

Japanese Zero was the flagship enemy fighter aircraft during World War Two

Japanese Zero

Mitsubishi A6M3 Zero Model 22 (NX712Z), recovered from New Guinea in 1991 and used (with the atypical green camouflage shown) in the film Pearl Harbor…

A look at Buchenwald concentration camp

Buchenwald

Buchenwald concentration camp was the first to be liberated by the Allies in April 1945, at the end of World War Two. The US Army’s…