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When The Wehrmacht, In Retaliation, Carted Off 601 Dutch Men To Concentration Camps, 48 Returned

It is a matter of historical fact that Nazi Germany committed truly horrific crimes against humanity during WWII. Germany and 14 other countries have even…

These 4 Massive Nazi-Built Bunkers Near Calais Are Both Frightening and Stunning

The Atlantic Wall was an extensive system of coastal defence and fortifications built by Nazi Germany between 1942 and 1944 along the coast of continental…

Battles of Attu & Kiska: Retaking The Only US Soil Lost During WWII

In the cold, desolate Arctic near Alaska in 1942, Japanese troops quietly invaded and took over two of the Aleutian Islands, considered to be North…

Top 10 Surviving Nazi Built Buildings

The Nazi government under Adolf Hitler saw architecture as a means of imposing fear and respect. Hitler, like many Germans, had an admiration of the…

The Untold Heroism Of The B-17 Gunners, You’ll Be Amazed (Watch)

The B-17 Flying Fortress was the iconic airplane of the WWII era. It was a four-engine heavy bomber that was offered to the US Army…

Focke-Wulf 190 – 27 Of The Best Pics We Could Find On The Net!

The 190 is literally one of the best fighters of all time, no Allied plane that fought against it will ever forget what it could…

100 Year Old WWII Veteran Takes To The Skies In WWII Biplane

Cliff Crozier, a veteran of WWII, turned one hundred years old on the 6th of September 2015, in a little town near Liverpool in England. Friends…

This Family Survived Being Torpedoed By A German Submarine in World War II

Ray Downs was sailing with his family on the freighter Heredia on May 19th, 1942. He was eight years old at the time, and they…

WWII Veterans Reunite After 70 Years

Robert Carter, 91, was looking through a Legion Magazine earlier this year when he spotted someone he hadn’t seen for 70 years. “Oh I recognized…

Bikini Atoll Still Too Radioactive to Start Resettling

Bikini Atoll, the string of islands that the U.S. used as nuclear testing grounds between 1946 and 1958, is still too radioactive to be inhabited.…

Battle of Milvian Bridge and Rise of Christianity

On the morning of the 28th of October, 312, a decisive battle between the future Roman emperor Constantine and Maxentius took place near the Milvian…

The Man Who Volunteered for Auschwitz – Witold Pilecki

Inmate 4859. The Death Camp Volunteer – Beyond Bravery  Thus, I am expected to describe bare facts only, as my colleagues want it. It was…