Why You Can’t Take Selfies At Auschwitz
A British novelist and journalist, Anthony Horowitz, recently made a plea for the banning of self-photography – the taking of “selfies” – at the Auschwitz…
USAAF Airmen of 487th BG Signed Wall of Suffolk Pub – Staff Now Tracing Them Back To US
From April 1944 to the end of the Second World War, 487th Bombardment Group operated from RAF Lavenham and visited the Swan pub in Suffolk,…
Thomas Blatt, Survivor Who Escaped From Sobibor Nazi Concentration Camp, Passes away
Thomas Blatt , a well-known survivor of the Nazi Death Camp at Sobibor, has died at the age of 88. In WWII he was taken…
What to Do with Dilapidated Nuremberg Nazi Rally Grounds?
Neglected and crumbling buildings dating from the Nazi era are coming under scrutiny in Germany, as people debate their cultural significance and what should become…
Family fined for taking term-time trip to Battle of Arnhem site
A family from Blackpool in England is being fined by local authorities after taking their 13 year old son out of school during term time…
2009: German Town Centre with Provocative Mass Display of Garden Gnomes Giving Nazi Salute
An unusual sight greeted people one morning in 2009 in a town in southern Germany. Upon reaching the town centre they found it had been…
Documentary Recreated Colditz Castle Escape Attempt Using A Glider
A Channel 4 documentary has recreated a 1945 World War Two British Army plan whereby British Army prisoners held at Colditz Castle were plotting to…
Germany Finally Removes Nazi Laws from its Legal Code
Like many other aspects of the German society, Nazis paid special heed towards the justice system to compliment their evil motives. Adolf Hitler authorized a…
1st Special Service Force – The Devils Brigade
In March 1942, eccentric British inventor Geoffrey Pyke came up with the idea of forming a special forces unit to carry out operations against the…
Dutch Adopted American World War Two Graves For Over 70 Years!
Thousands of World War Two American graves have been given an adopted keeper by the Foundation for Adopting Graves at American Cemetery in Margraten, the…
South American Archives Confirm That Thousands of Nazis Fled There after the World War II
Recently-opened archives in some South American countries have shed new light on the extent of the wide-scale influx of Nazis into the Americas at the…
Ukraine divided over WWII legacy
Every year, rallies commemorating the Second World War are held all over Ukraine. The celebrations divide the people however and feelings run high, despite the…