Third Reich | War History

A look at Buchenwald concentration camp

Buchenwald

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…

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…

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.…

German film-makers document the Germans who fought back against Hitler

On the 70th anniversary of World War Two, German film-makers commemorate and tell the real stories of those Germans who tried to fight back against…

Hitler’s bunker to be recreated as a tourist attraction

Hitler’s bunker

Hitler’s bunker, in which he hid during the final days of World War Two, is to be recreated and opened as a tourist attraction in…

The Last Survivor of the Escape from Death Camp Treblinka

Treblinka

Treblinka in north east Poland is synonymous with the Nazi concentration camp located there during World War Two.  Just under a million Jews were murdered…

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…

Nuremberg decides on Nazi rally ground’s fate

Ian Harvey

Hitler described Nuremberg as the ‘Heart of the Third Reich’. So it makes sense that he would build the Nazi’s main rally ground around 11kms…

Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” and its Irish Translator

Ian Harvey

This spring will mark 70 years since Hitler’s death.  However, his diatribe Mein Kampf (My Struggle) lives on. In fact, the copyright for the German…

New TV drama tells story of 1960s Nazi criminal Eichmann trial

Ian Harvey

A new BBC TV drama is to tell the story of the 1960s Nazi criminal trial of Adolf Eichmann, which was filmed by a TV…

New TV series, Masters of the Air, to tell the story of World War Two bombers

Ian Harvey
Masters of the Air

Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks have joined forces to create a new 10 part TV series telling the story of World War Two’s bomber fleets.…

WWII German nuclear bunker found in Austria

Ian Harvey

A bunker has recently been found in the Austrian town of St.Georgen an der Gusen which was used during the Second World War. This bunker…