Enigma No Longer A Mystery: Peeking Inside the Fabled Nazi Machine
The Enigma machine, used by the Nazis in World War II to send coded messages to agents and military personnel around the globe, has been…
Remembering WWII’s “Black Thursday” In All 25 Percent of the Attack Force was Lost
During World War II, most of the ball bearings required for the Nazi army’s military and support vehicles were manufactured in Schweinfurt in eastern Bavaria.…
A Change the Royal Navy Made in 1926 is Now Starting to Upset Londoners
The British popularized the expression “a storm in a teacup,” and they often prove it to be an apt phrase when citizens get their knickers…
Conspiracy Theories: The Biggest One Of All From WW2
Conspiracy theorists just love to spend their time debating outlandish notions of what really happened during historical events. Simple, verifiable truth isn’t enough. Marilyn Monroe…
Argentina’s Role In WWII: How It Supported Many Nazis, & Gave Them Shelter
When Nazi Germany finally lay in ruins at the end of World War II in 1945, most of the regime’s leaders were either captured or…
For Sale, But Goebbels’s House Has Been Abandoned For 20 Years
Homes are a little like people: they give off a certain energy, either positive or negative. Depending on who’s lived in them, homes can be…
Ruth Winkelmann The Girl who Witnessed Kristallnacht – Night of Broken Glass
In an interview with the BBC, Ruth Winkelmann described the terror of living through the infamous Kristallnacht or Night of the Broken Glass, when the…
War What is It Good For – Gun Design Actually, Here Are Some Examples
If necessity is the “mother of invention,” it’s fair to say that war is the granddaddy of armament invention. The weapons described below are only…
P-51 Mustang Crashes in Texas, No Survivors & Sadly the Passenger Was a WW2 Pilot
At a recent airshow in Fredericksburg, Texas, a P-51D Mustang carrying a veteran pilot from WWII as a passenger crashed into a parking lot. The…
Court infuriates Japan by Ordering Nippon Steel to Compensate WW2 Workers
In October 2018, South Korea’s Supreme Court handed down a landmark ruling where it upheld a court order passed down in 2013, instructing the Nippon…
Top 10 WW2 Movies
Rating movies is a highly subjective task, one which has been reduced in modern times to the illustration of a squishy tomato by those who…
Spitfire Flown by ‘Great Escape’ Pilot Found on Norwegian Mountain
Gunn’s plane was a specially adapted Mk 1 Spitfire stripped of guns and armor and was fitted with extra fuel tanks to extend its range…