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WWII Nazi SS fantasy castle opens to the public

Heinrich Himmler was one of the most vicious mass murderers in recorded history and was the architect of the Holocaust. He was born in Munich…

World War II Veteran Tells His Story about how he and his Squadron Bombed Hitler’s Hideaway

Peter Palmer is a 94-year-old who served in World War II as an RAF Lancaster bomber.  Right before the close of the war, Peter was…

The Notorious Andersonville Confederate POW Camp Where 13,000 Died and Henry Wirz

“Hang Him” and “Remember Andersonville” were epithets screamed by former Union prisoners of war at the hanging, on 10th November 1895, of one of America’s…

Fleet Admiral Leahy, Chief of Staff to the Commander in Chief Was Fiercely Opposed to Dropping the Atomic Bomb on Japan

  Before the official establishment of the position of Joint Chiefs of Staff in the United States Military in 1947, there served a man who…

LEGO Brickmania display – WWII Battle of Peleliu

The Battle of Peleliu began on 16 September 1944 and lasted until 27 November of that same year. United States Marines of the First Marine…

Hanbury Crater: Britain’s biggest WWII explosion site 71 years on

Seismologists in Switzerland at first thought it was an earthquake, hardly guessing the seismograph recorded the effects of a massive explosion in far distant England.…

The Strangest, Funniest, Eccentric and Odd Habits Of Stalin, Hitler, Churchill and FDR

Admit it, finding little-known funny, eccentric and odd habits, obsessions and facts about men who carved their places in history is both amusing and interesting.…

Beer Bombers: Boys Will Be Boys and Soldiers Needed Their Beer!

Only a few days after the Allied invasion of Normandy on D-Day, the dust and heat of the tortured area stirred up quite a thirst…

Wreck of the SS Thistlegorm in the Egyptian Red Sea

By Super Jolly for War History Online: Underwater for 68 years, a snap shot in time and beautifully preserved WWII cargo so desperately needed by Allied…

The ‘perfect Aryan’ Nazi Propaganda Baby Was Actually Jewish

When Hitler took control over Germany, he was striving for Aryan perfection and wanted to get rid of the Jewish influence.  With that in mind,…

Historic Guernsey Fort for sale – Bring £2 million

The island of Guernsey, situated off the coast of Normandy is a British Crown Dependency. It is not a part of the British Isles but…

A Man’s Letter to his Family During World War Two Made Public

A young man who was in his 20s during his service aboard the USS Doyen a fast attack transport in World War II decided to write…