A Nightmarish Place – The Mauthausen-Gusen Concentration Camp
The Mauthausen-Gusen Concentration Camp lies just North of Linz, in Austria. It was one of the first large concentration camps created in Nazi Germany and…
The Weapons They Carried: 10 WWII Infantry Weapons That Were Crucial to the Fight
Let’s take a look at the top 10 WWII Infantry Rifles of WWII, both Allied and Axis. M1 Garand The M1 Garand was the standard…
Amazing story: WWII ghost B-17 completed its mission, then landed – no one was on board
A B-17 Flying Fortress landed perfectly at an RAF airbase and completes the full landing pattern as well. The bomber comes to a full stop;…
Lyudmila Pavlichenko The Most Succesful Female Sniper Ever With 309 Kills
When the most countries of the world avoid putting women in the front line for some reasons during the World War II, the Soviet Union…
The German Officer Who Rescued the ‘Pianist’
Sometimes, things aren’t always so black and white. Take the Nazi officer who ran a concentration camp in Poland. Who would ever have thought that he’d…
10 Interesting Facts About Douglas MacArthur That You Might Not Know
Douglas MacArthur, born on 26 January 1880 was an American five-star general and Field Marshal of the Philippine Army. He was Chief of Staff of…
Was Eva Braun a Naive Bystander or Proactive Participant in Nazi Actions?
In her 2011 book, Eva Braun: Life with Hitler, author Heike G. Gortemaker paints a portrait of an Eva that was more than the often…
Sir Nicholas Winton, the “British Schindler” Who Saved 669 Children From Nazi Extermination
On the Fist of July, this year, a hero died at the age of 106 years. What made him a hero? His actions, his humbleness,…
Ten of the Worst Concentration Camps in WW2: A List of Famous Concentration Camps and the # of Dead
In 1933, the first Nazi concentration camp was built in Dachau, Germany to imprison dissidents. Heinrich Himmler took over in 1934 and start arresting “racially undesirable…
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…
The Strangest, Funniest, Eccentric and Odd Habits Of Stalin, Hitler, Churchill and FDR
Admit it, finding little-known funny, eccentric and odd habits, obsessions and facts about men who carved their places in history is both amusing and interesting.…
Medal of Honor – John R. Fox sacrificed himself by deliberately calling an artillery strike on his own position
John Robert Fox was an American soldier who was killed in action when he deliberately called artillery fire on his own position after his position…