Coco Chanel, a Nazi spy: The role the famous designer had in WWII
Image Courtesy of: ibnlive.in Coco Chanel remained in history as one of the most inspiring fashion designers of all time and as the first person who…
Top Ten Military Disasters in War History
Here’s the War History Online take on the top ten military disasters that occurred throughout war history. For every win, there’s a loss. The same…
WWII Miracles: Two Airmen SAVED By One Parachute
Do you believe in miracles? The true-to-life and documented story of WWII Australian pilot Joseph B. Herman might make a believer out of you. Night…
Brazil’s World War Two rubber workers demand compensation
A World War Two shortage of rubber ensured that thousands of Brazilian workmen were forced to undertake dangerous rubber extraction from the Brazilian Amazon forest.…
WWII Butcher of Plaszow’s grand-daughter comes to terms with her heritage
Born in 1970, Jennifer Teege, was sent to an orphanage and has since then known little about her real parents or family. While Jennifer had…
Extensive D-Day training and preparations revealed
The D-Day landings [Via] A Scottish castle in the far north of the UK is a little known hero in the preparations for the D-Day…
13 minutes earlier and Hitler would have been dead
There were many assassination attempts on Hitler from the time he began to rise in Germany’s political scene in the early 1930s, all the way…
The Story of Stanley Hollis – The Soldier the Nazis Couldn’t Kill
The Second World War revealed over the years the stories of many heroes who gave their lives for their country in acts of boundless courage.…
The captured OSS agent who convinced an entire German Army to surrender!
Frederick Mayer was born in Baden Germany, in a Jewish family. He worked in Germany for a while after finishing High School education, working as…
RAF Pilot Ray Holmes who RAMMED a German bomber to stop it hitting Buckingham Palace
Let us recall the story of daring RAF pilot Ray Holmes and how his downing of a German Dornier 17 bomber near Buckingham Palace became one…
Japanese Zero was the flagship enemy fighter aircraft during World War Two
Mitsubishi A6M3 Zero Model 22 (NX712Z), recovered from New Guinea in 1991 and used (with the atypical green camouflage shown) in the film Pearl Harbor…
A look at Buchenwald concentration camp
Buchenwald concentration camp was the first to be liberated by the Allies in April 1945, at the end of World War Two. The US Army’s…