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The Defiance of an AP Reporter – the story of Allied Embargo over German surrender in May 1945

Defiance of an AP Reporter

[Via] In this age of information and technology, we are blessed with numerous news sources and information platforms that we can use to corroborate the…

Nazis introduced videophones in 1936

It may come as a surprise to many, but the truth is that the Nazis first introduced ‘Video call technology’ on March 1, 1936. The…

13 minutes earlier and Hitler would have been dead

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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…

SOVIET CONQUEST – Review by Nate Sullivan

The Soviet assault on Berlin was a glorious affair. The iconic (albeit staged) photograph of the Soviet flag being raised atop the Reichstag has come…

The Battle for Berlin – A New Exhibition in St Petersburg

Guest Author

There aren’t many places in the world where the desire to keep the events of the second world war in the public consciousness are greater…

Soviet deadly air attack over Nazi’s Berlin – June 1941

In June 1941, Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa to attack the Soviet Union. Thousands of German troops, tanks and aircraft stormed the west of the country.…

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…

Missing German soldiers to be given proper burials

German soldiers

German soldiers who were missing and buried in the devastation of one of the last battles of World War Two are being recovered and given…

Hitler’s bunker – command center and home away from home

Ian Harvey

Fifty feet below Berlin’s former Reich Chancellery and a few minutes from Potsdamer Platz in central Berlin was Hitler’s bunker or Führer bunker. In the…

There are 3,000 Unexploded WWII Bombs in Berlin Alone – Berlin Senate

  Berlin, Germany – According to local reports, the Berlin Senate has given an estimate on how many unexploded WWII ordnance are still buried within Germany’s…

Perhaps the Last Remaining Participant of the Potsdam Conference

Ian Harvey
Hitler's desk

“Chunks of Hitler’s desk that we found in the Chancellery. Everything was in ruins. I’m not sure whether we should have taken souvenirs, but we…

Review of WWII movie: Fury

Ian Harvey
WWII

Fury is the name of the new movie by David Ayar, which takes place in April 1945 in Nazi Germany at the very end of…