A Lost Diary: Stories Of A WWII ‘Suicide Mission’
In the lost and found diary, Capt. Jack Stanley Jones wrote about a medal presentation he had to wake up early for and complained about…
Guarding the Truth- testimony of a guard at a Nazi concentration camp
Photo story (Clockwise from top left): (1) Margarete Barthel, at her house near Duesseldorf, Germany in 2006 (2) A pile of corpses of Jews &…
Japan Submits Kamikaze Letters to be World Heritage Artifacts
The residents of a Japanese city have filed over 300 last letters sent by kamikaze pilots in UNESCO for the Memory of the World Register…
Monuments Men Saved Art During WWII
Men and women who were part of the Monuments Men during the Second World War had already established their careers as curators, museum administrators, conservationists,…
Europe’s Great Powers And The ‘Suicidal’ War
The four years of the First World War, between 1914 and 1918, saw nations left almost lifeless and battles fought all around the world, but…
WWI Footage Released Showing Soldiers March Off To War
Amazing footage was recently released of WWI soldiers marching off to the trenches. The film was created by using several different clips that were filmed…
Swearing And WWI
Fighting Words: Canadian Soldiers’ Slang and Swearing in the Great War, a brilliant essay by Tim Cook, is probably the best example of swearing and…
Iwo Jima Vet On War Souvenir Mercy Mission
He did not think much about what to do, he didn’t spend any time thinking whether that soldier had a family, a name or a…
Swastika: Sign of Peace or Hatred?
In May of 2012 a mysterious swastika appeared in a field in Ontario. Google Maps captured the symbol at the location of 1600 Gainsborough Rd,…
Deer in Germany still does not cross former Iron Curtain
The Iron Curtain has long been removed. The electric fences, barbed wires, watchtowers and heavily-armed guards that once lined the borders are long gone. But…
Talking Dogs Army Part of Hitler’s Plan to Win WWII – Doctor
It is not just a movie plot. As bizarre as its sounds, it really did happen in reality. German dictator Adolf Hitler had really commissioned Nazi scientists…
The Priest Who Saved A Four-Year-old Hitler From Death In An Icy River
The newspaper article, depicting the story of a four-year-old boy who was saved from drowning, perhaps one of the hardest to accept act of mercy…