UPDATE: Treasure Hunter Who Spent 40 Years Searching For Nazi Gold Train Reveals its Dark Secrets
Editors note: These are the Gold Train updates up to March 2016 In December 2015, the press conference denounced the claims of a Nazi Gold…
Italian WWII Tankette Captured in Africa On Display at Australian War Memorial
An unusual Italian tankette used during World War Two has been transported to Australia for a display at the Australian War Memorial (AWM) in Canberra.…
Monte Cassino – A Monument To German Bravery
On the 15th February, 1944, 1400 tons of high explosives were dropped by the Allied forces advancing upon Rome, on the Benedictine monastery of Monte…
10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About ‘Full Metal Jacket’
Stanley Kubrick’s ‘Full Metal Jacket’ is probably, of all Vietnam War movies made, the most influential. It’s an iconic movie with a huge fandom.…
Hitler’s Mistake at Dunkirk
As the 75th anniversary of the Dunkirk evacuation has been commemorated, historians are looking back and analysing why Hitler did not finish off the Allied…
Mystery of the Napoleonic Army Perished in 1812
The Emperor of the French Empire and one of the most controversial figureheads of the modern European history, Napoleon was ambitious and ruthless hence he…
Hitler’s Last Residence, Fuhrerbunker, Went Unnoticed For 60 Years
A parking lot now sits where Adolph Hitler’s Reich Chancellery once stood. It is long gone thanks to Soviet troops liberating Berlin marking the end…
TRAGIC: 10 JUNE, 1944 ORADOUR-SUR-GLANE
By Richard Brook. On 10 June, 1944, men of the 2nd Waffen-SS “Das Reich” Panzer Division came to Oradour-sur-Glane. Located some 460 km south and…
Unbelievable – Son finds lost D-Day colour footage in father’s attic
The only known Allied colour footage of World War Two was uncovered in the attic of a Hollywood director by his son… When the warship…
8 inventions the US stole from the Germans after WWII
To the victors belong the spoils of war, and after Nazi Germany was defeated there were plenty of spoils that the Allies were after. 1.…
10 You Should Know About The End Of WWII in the Netherlands
After being invaded by the Germans on May 10th 1940 and the surrender on May 15th 1940 the Netherlands faced 4 grim years of occupation.…
Beautiful images of veterans of the Napoleonic War
The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of major conflicts pitting the French Empire led by Emperor Napoleon I against an array of European powers…