Reinhard Heydrich – The Man With The Iron Heart
Unless you are a WWII aficionado, it’s likely you don’t have all the facts about every Nazi official memorized. However, every individual who played a…
Action T4 – Nazi ‘Euthanasia’ Programme That Murdered The Disabled and The Mentally Ill
In October 1939, Adolf Hitler signed a decree that enabled Nazi Germany to forcefully euthanize patients who they deemed were “unworthy of life”. After the…
Midway: The Turning Point in the Pacific
The Battle of Midway (3rd to 7th June 1942) was the single most decisive encounter in the Pacific theater of World War Two. A clash…
The Shetland Bus – Escape, Survival & Adventure To Keep Norwegian Resistance In The Fight
Europe during the Second World War was a bleak place; German forces invaded Norway on the 9th of April, 1940, and as the country was…
Michael Wittmann, the Deadly German Panzer Ace Of WWII: Facts and Pictures
Between the myth and reality lies a figure of great importance in the history of armored warfare. Michael Wittmann, the most successful panzer ace of…
This True Leader Stormed Multiple Japanese Machine Guns In Burma Until Mortally Wounded
Oxford scholar and founder of a literary magazine are just a couple of honors to which a young man might aspire and find himself on…
June 1944 – Rome Falls To The Allies In The Second World War
Celebrations in the Streets of Rome On the June 5th 1944, the people of Rome flooded into the streets to welcome the arrival of the…
The Long Shadow Of Hitler’s Reich – Surviving Buildings From The Nazi Era
The Nazi government under Adolf Hitler saw architecture as a means of imposing fear and respect. Hitler, like many Germans, had an admiration of the…
We Ask If The Film U-571 Is Fictionalised To The Point of Insult
For fans of 20th-century war-action maritime films, the 2000 picture U-571 should be a good time. Make some popcorn, go ahead. It even won an…
When The Allies Attacked Oran And Were Annihilated By Vichy French Soldiers
After the fall of France during WWII, a puppet regime was established, with its administrative center in the town of Vichy, declaring itself The Vichy…
They Shot Each Other Down Then Depended On Each Other For Survival In The Norwegian Wilderness
Into the White was a 2012 Norwegian film loosely based on real events from World War II’s Norwegian Campaign, when the Allies tried to keep the…
Battles of Attu & Kiska: Retaking Lost US Soil During WWII
In the cold, desolate Arctic near Alaska in 1942, Japanese troops quietly invaded and took over two of the Aleutian Islands, considered to be North…