Modern | War History

Commandant of Auschwitz, Was an Affectionate Dad Hugged & Kissed His Kids Before Going to Work

“When in the summer of 1941, Hitler gave me the order to prepare installations at Auschwitz where mass exterminations could take place, and personally to…

An Artist Who Became The USSR’s Most Lethal Sniper Dispatched Over 500 Germans

Jay Hemmings

Usually artists are associated with pacifism and anti-war sentiments. There are, of course, always exceptions to such stereotypes – Adolf Hitler is probably the most…

Hitler’s Plans for a New World Order After His Victory in WW2

The Man in the High Castle is a popular Amazon TV series based on the novels bearing the same name by Philip K. Dick. In…

The Concentration Camp in Italy – Servigliano Camp 59

Elly Farelly

Although the concentration camps in Germany are well documented, the camps in Italy are not so well known. One reason for this is that although…

Tarawa Veteran Sees Picture of The Man Who Saved His Life 70 Years Ago

“Semper Fidelis” Men were floating in the water, some wounded and screaming, others already dead. Scanning the carnage, Dean Ladd wondered how long his luck…

How an Outdated Biplane, Took Out the Gigantic Battleship Bismarck

Jay Hemmings

The Second World War was a period of greatly accelerated development in the field of aviation: this was the first war in which jet fighters…

Total Warrior Was Awarded The Victoria Cross TWICE – An Incredible Human Being

Since its inception, the VC has been awarded 1,358 times to 1,355 men. And no, there is not a typing error in that sentence. Three…

Battle Of Saipan Suicides: The Largest Banzai Charge of the Entire War, 4000 Japanese Troops

Jay Hemmings

War inevitably equals mass casualties, whether numbering in the dozens or the hundreds, or the hundreds of thousands – this a truth that has accompanied…

The Bunker of the “Beast of Auschwitz” Found in a Convent 70 Years After WWII

Buried thirty feet underneath the ground, in the basement of an old convent in southern Poland, is a room which used to be the secret…

Sex Outside of Marriage: Lebensborn, How Hitler Planned a Master Race

Most of the smaller children were taken away from their parents before they were old enough to comprehend what was even happening. The Third Reich…

America’s Forgotten WWI Hero Who Beat the Germans Bare Handed

Jay Hemmings

With just his fists and his knife, he managed to fend them off, fighting with such fury that the Germans eventually retreated. While the United…

A Savage & Brutal Affair. Hand-To-Hand Combat in WW1

Jay Hemmings

In trench combat, any encounter you had with an enemy soldier was likely to be a life-or-death one. The First World War is notorious for…