Jumpers ready for D-Day parachute jump on 70th anniversary commemoration
June 2014 will mark the 70th anniversary of D-Day landings, the start of the end of the Nazi occupation over Europe. It will be the…
Murder of Great Escapers and the mission of the Blackpool police to track down their Nazi killers
The near end of The Great Escape is one of the most tragic episodes in history. Most of the prisoners who tried to flee and…
Codename Agent Blanche, the last surviving British female spy of the World War II
Her real-life story is that which can only be read in spy books or see in movies. Yet Agent Blanche was was daring, real…
The Monuments Men rescued Nazi-stolen art and more
The “Monuments Men” produced and directed by George Clooney did not really receive the warm welcome expected especially with its all-star cast. The critics were…
Neuschwanstein holds secrets of lost art work beyond fairy tales during the Nazi era
“The castle of the fairy-tale king” seduces more than a million tourists every year with its serene facade and mysterious air featured in postcards, travel…
Hindenburg’s last will and testament could have stopped Hitler from consolidating power, defector claims
British intelligence documents could have changed the course of history. The newly released documents previously classified supports the testimony of a pre-WWII German diplomat who…
New Book Claims Hitler Retired to Argentina after making a secret escape from crumbling Nazi empire
FBI documents recently released suggest that Adolf Hitler made his escape from a bunker in Germany to Argentina where he spent the rest of his…
Latvians march to honor World War II allies who fought in Nazi units
The Legionnaires Day was abolished by the Latvian government in 2000. Yet, this did not stop around 1,500 Latvians from marching Sunday last week to…
US Vietnam War veteran with cancer receives claims for exposure to Agent Orange in Okinawa
Loaded: A U.S. Marine Corps helicopter sits by unidentified barrels at Naha Military Port in the late ’60s. | COURTESY OF MICHAEL JONES Another…
Yorkshire tragedy during the German raid in the Great War to be remembered in centenary commemoration
The civilians of Yorkshire who reside in the East Coast were unlucky to experience the horrors of war only a few months after the country…
Jeremy Paxman rekindles debate with Michael Gove over how to mark the WW1 centenary calling the latter a “charlatan”
The World War I centenary is drawing closer by the day. A century after the outbreak of the war, debates center on how the day…
WWI capsule discovered in war memorial
Workers dismantling the WWI heritage-listed Miranda War Memorial were certainly in for a surprise after discovering a time capsule buried under the structure. The Miranda…