English stately home renovated to World War Two condition
The British cook and baker, Mary Berry, has renovated an English stately home to its World War Two condition, and has re-opened the house to…
Nazi ‘Surrender Order’ sold for over $30,000
Not everyone commanding the German Army was as ambitious as Hitler was in his last days of the Second World War. As the war approached…
GALLIPOLI – Review by Dr Wayne Osborne
Yes, there are many books about Gallipoli but by that same token there are many books about the Somme Campaign of 1916. So what? There…
4 of the Greatest Hoaxes of World War II
Achieving one’s goals in the most important thing in war and all means have been used to do so during WWII. Trickery, planned hoaxes, deceit,…
Ghosts of the Gooney Bird, a magnificent series of photos of the legendary DC-3 Dakota in her final glory – By Hans Wiesman
During my multiple expeditions since 1990 in search of the legendary Gooney Bird, I ran into many DC-3 derelicts, C-47 wrecks, abandoned Dakotas and fortunately,…
Sophie Scholl: one of Germany’s most famous anti-Nazi heroes, executed by guillotine
Across Germany and especially in Munich, the city where they were most active, people remember and honor, by naming streets, monuments, even a top literary…
PERHAPS THE GREATEST ENIGMA OF WW2: ADMIRAL WILHELM CANARIS
By Richard Brook In Berlin, running perpendicular to the Tiergarten is Stauffenbergstasse, renamed in honor of Col Claus von Stauffenberg, the man who tried to kill…
Most truly inaccurate war films to hit the big screen
When sitting down to watch war movies, most audiences expect that the accounts are as true to what actually happened as possible, especially since they…
‘We were a target’ Air Force veteran discusses service during the Cold War
By Jeremy P. Amick During the height of the Cold War in the 1960s, many men and women volunteered to serve the United States by…
Bone fragments discovered at crash site in Germany could be the last resting place of World War Two airman
The family of a fallen British soldier from the Second World War fought a lengthy battle with German development authorities. The family members of the…
World War Two missing submarine, HMS Urge, discovered off Libya
Correction: This article states inaccurate and out-of-date information about the location of the HMS Urge, based on reports that were given at the time, but…
War criminal Alois Brunner, Adolf Eichmann’s main assistant, died in Syria
Image Courtesy of commons Efraim Zuroff, director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Jerusalem, confirmed to BBC that the former Nazi war criminal, Alois Brunner,…