Slovak National Uprising
The Slovak National Uprising was part of the Czechoslovak antifascist resistance during World War 2 and the most important period in the history of the…
Major Don Boyer, the Unsung Hero of St. Vith, German Grenades Came Tumbling into the American Trenches
On the 16th of December 1944, Germany launched a counter-offensive against Allied forces advancing across Western Europe. Known to history as the Battle of the…
Strange But True: During WWII the British Government Bought all of The World’s Tea
The British and drinking tea are two things that go hand-in-hand. Everyone knows that the English love a good cuppa, but most do not…
Phantom Fortress: The Crewless Landing of a B-17
On November 23, 1944, a Royal Air Force antiaircraft unit stationed outside Cortonburg, Belgium observed a B-17 Flying Fortress flying towards them. The massive U.S. Army…
How the Allies Guessed the Number of German Tanks Using Serial Numbers
The “German tank problem” is a statistical approach which is employed in estimating the total number of existing items from a simple random sample of…
Japan Surrendered, Civilians & POWs ‘Disappeared’ They Could No longer Testify to the Atrocities Committed by the Guards
After Nazi Germany was defeated in May 1945, the Empire of Greater Japan was the only obstacle to ending the Second World War. But the…
Third of Military Budget of The Third Reich Consisted of Jewish Wealth
Most often, when people talk about the reasons for Adolf Hitler’s success in power, they recall his oratorical abilities, political will and intuition, the difficult…
Keeping Enigma Secret From The Germans – Many Lives Were Lost Sacrificed Doing So
How cracking the German Enigma code impacted on the course of the war cannot be understated. Cracking the code was possibly the greatest intelligence coup…
Canned Food & Processed Food Industry is an Aftermath of WW2 Ending Sooner Than Expected
Food has often been an important part of warfare. What is less known is how food developed for warfare changed people’s lives after the war.…
Firing The .50 Cal From a Sherman Tank: How Often Was This Actually Done?
From the very first moment that the earliest tanks rolled onto the battlefield in the First World War, they forever changed the way ground battles…
This German Officer Gave His Life In A Minefield To Save An American Soldier
The story of Friedrich Lengfeld is one which is not so common in history. Occasionally we hear of soldiers who throw their bodies into the arms…
Death is Not Defeat: Mass Suicides in Nazi Germany in 1945
On April 30, 1945, while in his Führerbunker in Berlin, Adolf Hitler shot himself. Around the same time, about a thousand residents of the German…