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Meet the Man Who Earns a Living as a Professional Hitler Look-A-Like: Emin Djinovci

Unbelievable but true — a man in Mitrovica, Kosovo earns his living as the professional look-a-like of the notorious German dictator Adolf Hitler and even…

US NAVY PC 566 COMMANDER CLAUDIUS FINALLY REWARDED FOR U-BOAT SINKING

Ian Harvey
U-BOAT

On 30th July 1942, the passenger ship Robert E. Lee was sailing to New Orleans with survivors from the U-boat attacks. In the Gulf of…

Remembering the Berlin Wall with the 10 Best Cold War Novels

Ian Harvey

The Berlin Wall fell on November 9, 1989, making this year the 25th anniversary of the breakdown of the iconic fence that separated Western Germany…

Burma Boy story brought home to Nigeria

Ian Harvey
Nigeria

Barnaby Phillips, a correspondent with Al Jazeera, was in Nigeria to launch his book, Another Man’s War. The book was based on his 2011 documentary…

Rumours surround Ireland’s upcoming Holocaust Memorial Day

Ian Harvey
Holocaust Memorial Day

According to Yad Vashem, the World Center for Holocaust Research in Israel have banned representatives from Israel from attending a Holocaust Memorial Day in January…

Divers explore World War II HMS Olympus wreck

Ian Harvey
HMS Olympus

HMS Olympus is an Odin-class British submarine built in the 1920s and sunk in 1942 by an enemy mine. It is now being explored by…

Undetonated World War II bomb found in Potsdam

Ian Harvey
Potsdam

Up to 10,000 people were evacuated from central Potsdam, Germany this week after construction workers came across an undetonated World War II bomb. The bomb…

New Budapest memorial reveals Neo-Nazi concerns for Hungary

Ian Harvey
Budapest

Budapest, Hungary’s capital, recently unveiled a new statue to commemorate and remember the victims of World War Two. The statue is a stone Archangel Gabriel,…

Malmedy Massacre remembered by Pennsylvania World War Two veteran

Ian Harvey
Malmedy Massacre

On the 70th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge, Harold Billow of Mount Joy, Pennsylvania, remembers his experience of the Malmedy Massacre, part of…

WHO-Tube: Abandoned; WW2 Luftwaffe German Military Airbase

The German airfield Schönwalde was built in 1934 by the German Ministry of Aviation as a base for the German Air Force. They did this at…

George Patton – 31 images you MAY not have seen before?!

Jack Beckett

George Smith Patton Jr was born on the 11th November, 1885, into a family with a long record of military service.  He saw action in…

The B-17 Alliance moves a historic Milwaukie B-17 bomber to Salem for restoration

Ian Harvey
B-17 bomber

  In early December, a historic B-17 bomber housed in Milwaukie was moved to Salem for restoration and repairs by the B-17 Alliance. The B-17…