37 beautiful, sad but touching colourised images of WWII
Many thanks go to Doug Banks and his team – the masters of colourisation. The beauty of these colourised images is that colour, allows you…
SAD: The Heroic German Officer Who Gave His Life Trying to Save an American in a Minefield
October 7, 1994, saw a strange sight over the Hürtgen War Cemetery in Hürtgen, Germany. The cemetery is the final home of 3001 bodies –…
Nazi massacre descendants meet for first time
[Via] Andreas Schendel is a descendent of two Nazi Waffen SS officers. Both were his uncles and so once World War Two had ended, their…
Japan’s revisionists have different view of World War Two
Japan’s revisionists are a driving force behind a different version of what happened during World War Two. Slave labour, torture and sex slaves for…
‘Just’ 10 Japanese Atrocities From World War II
The Japanese Army during World War II committed many crimes against humanity that were ordered by the government and high command. In the Japanese equivalent…
When the former commander Treblinka, Kurt Franz, was arrested in 1959, a search of his home yielded a scrapbook with horrific photos of the massacre titled “Beautiful Years”
Kurt Hubert Franz (born on 17 January 1914 — died on 4 July 1998) was an officer of the SS and one of many commanders…
EXPLORING THE SECRET NAZI TUNNELS UNDER A GERMAN VACATION TOWN
Deep in the mountains of Bavaria is a concrete doorway set into the side of the mountain. Even in the height of summer, the thick…
Blisteringly sexy, she killed Nazis with her bare hands and had a 5 million-franc bounty on her head
The books and moments of history are filled with memorable names, courageous figures, and moments of sheer ingenuity. Yet not all names are as well…
US Civil War enthusiasts reigned in from retrieving relics
America’s Civil War is regularly brought back to life by the country’s vast number of US Civil War enthusiasts and re-enactors. Another way to bring…
Tsutomu Yamaguchi – the world’s only survivor of both Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs
[Via] Japan’s Tsutomu Yamaguchi lived a long, healthy life until he died in 2010 at the ripe old age of 93. What could have killed…
World War Two warship wrecks discovered off Western Australia
A research expedition off the coast of Western Australia has discovered warship wrecks of the sunken World War Two Australian HMAS Sydney and German HSK…
The best of military vehicles
Military vehicles are some of the most powerful, dynamic and technologically advanced vehicles on the road today. While only a few people ever get to…