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MUST READ & SHARE: The Great Escape 71 years today. Read this excellent piece of work – it is everything you need to know!

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71 years ago today was the beginning of the Great Escape. Below is an excellent article by Rob Davis, Telford, Shropshire from the UK. This is one…

Nazi Hideaway Found Deep Within Argentinian Jungle

A site composed out of some three compact-walled lookouts and suspected to be a Nazi hideaway was discovered by a team from the University of…

New Russian art installation commemorates taking of Nazi Reichstag

A new art installation has gone on display in the Russian city of St. Petersburg, depicting the Soviet Army’s invasion of Berlin in the final…

Outrageously Edited World War II Pictures

Now that everybody has the skills to manipulate pictures, more and more edited pictures from World War II appear on the internet. Superhero’s, Star Wars, famous…

World War Two Vienna flak tower converted into aquarium attraction

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A World War Two flak tower in Vienna has been transformed into a tropical fish aquarium. Flak towers were built by the Nazis during World…

A garage where the ghosts of Third Reich era motorcycles are being brought back to life.

Tucked away in a quiet suburb of Riverside, California is a garage where the ghosts of Third Reich era motorcycles are being brought back to…

Top 10 Greatest Aerial Battles

Images Used (Clockwise from top left): (1) First true bombs were dropped in autumn 1912 on a Turkish railway station from an Albatros F-2 aircraft…

The League of German Girls, BDM, the Nazi organisation for Girls – in Previously Unseen Pictures!

  The League of German Girls, in German; Bund Deutscher Mädel, or BDM was the girls’ wing of the Nazi Party youth movement. It was…

German museum to recreate Hitler’s World War Two bunker

Ian Harvey

The Spionage Museum in Oberhausen, north west Germany is to recreate Adolf Hitler’s World War Two Berlin bunker. The ‘Führerbunker’ was a huge underground network…

UK and German artist commemorate World War I Christmas Day Truce

Ian Harvey
Christmas Day Truce

The Christmas Day Truce of World War I is being commemorated by artists from the UK and Germany in a joint street graffiti mural as…

37 images of the massive German Flak Towers

Following the raid on Berlin by the Royal Air Force in 1940, the construction of 3 huge flak towers was ordered by Adolf Hitler. These…

Lost bodies of five airmen to be recovered after 70 years

Ian Harvey
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Five soldiers from Halifax HR980 who were killed in 1943 during a night raid have never had their bodies recovered.  These WWII airmen were shot…