10 Facts: The Race To Berlin – The Dramatic Closing Stages Of World War Two
The advance on Berlin in early 1945 didn’t only mark the final stage of World War Two in Europe. It also saw the first open…
Polish-American Historian Under Investigation For Allegedly Insulting Poland
Princeton Professor Jan Tomasz Gross is a Polish-American scholar who has claimed that Poland killed more Jews than the Germans in World War II. Poland’s…
Against All Odds – Three Impressively Valiant Stands In War History
Sometimes men are faced with impossible odds, hopelessly outnumbered or facing a merciless enemy with better weapons or other overwhelming advantages. Occasionally these terrible odds…
Firing The Biggest Gun Of WWII, The 80cm Railway Gun ‘Schwerer Gustav’ (Watch)
Schwerer Gustav – This was the name given to a German 80 cm railway gun, a huge piece of artillery designed to be shot from…
Wilhelm Adalbert Hosenfeld – The German Who Saved “The Pianist” And Is Honored by Israel
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 Facts: The Race To Berlin – The Dramatic Closing Stages Of World War Two
The advance on Berlin in early 1945 didn’t only mark the final stage of World War Two in Europe. It also saw the first open…
Firing The Biggest Gun Of WWII, The 80cm Railway Gun ‘Schwerer Gustav’
Schwerer Gustav – This was the name given to a German 80 cm railway gun, a huge piece of artillery designed to be shot from…
Valiant Stands Of War History
Sometimes men are faced with impossible odds, hopelessly outnumbered or facing a merciless enemy with better weapons or other overwhelming advantages. Occasionally these terrible odds…
Five Facts: The WW2 Concentration Camp Where Anne Frank Died: Bergen-Belsen
Bergen-Belsen is infamous around the world for the poor conditions the prisoners endured at the camp during World War Two. Disease and malnutrition were rife,…
The Special Unit Dirlewanger – The Most Vicious Nazi War Criminals
The notorious 36th Waffen Grenadier Divison of the SS earned its horrible reputation mostly on the Eastern Front where they freely conducted numerous war crimes…
Flamethrowers in Action Shown in 36 Blazing Photos!
Flamethrowers were first used by the Greeks in the 1st Century AD. More than 1000 years later, this weapon was used by Byzantine Empire against…
10 Interesting Facts On the Race to Berlin
The advance on Berlin in early 1945 didn’t only mark the final stage of World War Two in Europe. It also saw the first open…