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The Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact

The Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact

In 1939, Adolf Hitler was preparing for war. Though he was hoping to acquire Poland without force (as he had annexed Austria the year before), Hitler was planning against the possibility of a two front war. Since fighting a two front war in World War I had split Germany’s forces, it had weakened and undermined their offensive; [...]

The Story of the Atomic Bomb

The Story of the Atomic Bomb

The story of the atomic bomb started around the turn of the century when a small number of physicists began to think about, discuss, and publish papers about the phenomenon of radioactivity, the behavior of alpha particles, and the properties of various materials when irradiated. Initially, these persons included well-known scientists such as Ernest Rutherford [...]

Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

On 16 Jul 1945, while President of the United States Harry Truman was at Potsdam, Germany to meet with his Allied counterparts, long-waited results reached him: The Manhattan Project, the American effort at building the atomic bomb, successfully detonated the first bomb during a test at Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States. Truman, unwilling to [...]

Adolf Hitler

Hitler Personal Facts

Hitler Personal Facts

There’s nothing funny about Hitler, but he is endlessly fascinating. Since Congress passed the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act in 1998, almost 3 million classified files have been opened to the public – including a 1942 secret profile of Adolf Hitler compiled by the OSS. Here are some excerpts. PERSONAL APPEARANCE • Hitler never allows [...]

Obscure facts about Adolf Hitler. Frequently these supposed ‘Hitler facts’ involve lewd allusions to his sexuality, issues of health and hypochondria, and not least his tenuous relationship with religion. A particular favourite amongst mythologists is his alleged dearth of certain reproductive organs; this, however, would appear to owe more to the derogatory wartime songs of [...]

Facts about Hitler’s Personal Life

Facts about Hitler’s Personal Life

Adolf Hitler, who ruled Germany for 12 years, which resulted in millions of deaths in World War II, including the Holocaust, is regarded as one of the most despicable men in history, with his name becoming synonymous with evil. Born on the 20th of April, 1889, in Braunau am Inn, a town in Austria, Adolf [...]

Anne Frank

Anne Frank Biography

Anne Frank Biography

Anne Frank is one of the most famous Jewish victims of the Holocaust because of the diary she kept during her time in hiding before being captured by the Nazis. She was only 13 years old when she and her family went into hiding. The writings from the two years she spent in such close [...]

Anne Frank Information

Anne Frank Information

Anne Frank Summary Information: Anne Frank is best known for her diary, which she wrote for just over two years while in hiding from the Nazis in Amsterdam during World War II. She received the diary as a 13th birthday present a few weeks before she and her family, along with four other people, went [...]

Anne Frank and other Jews

Anne Frank and other Jews

Over one million children under the age of sixteen died in in World War II, not because of the bombs, but because they did not fit in as Hitler’s image of the “perfect” German. Many children and their parents living in countries, which had been invaded by the Germans, were imprisoned and killed because they [...]

Children of World War 2

Evacuation Of Children in WW2

Evacuation Of Children in WW2

During World War 2, many children were moved from areas that were at risk from bombing. The children had to leave their families and go to live with strangers in less dangerous parts of the country. This was called “evacuation”. Foster parents usually took their children. However, many discovered that life away from home was [...]

A Child’s Memories of World War 2

A Child’s Memories of World War 2

I was eight years old at the beginning of the war, and my first memory is of being taken to the local school hall, where the gas masks were being issued. The man gave me a Mickey Mouse one to try which nearly asphyxiated me! These masks were made with two separate eyeholes and a [...]

Children Of World War 2

Children Of World War 2

Full statistics for the tragic fate of children who died during the Nazi genocide – Holocaust – will never be known. Estimates range as high as 1.5 million murdered children. This figure includes more than 1.2 million Jewish children, tens of thousands of Gypsy children and thousands of institutionalized handicapped children. Nazi persecution, arrests, and [...]

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Aren’t they a bit young for flying lessons? Grandfather builds replica World War II plane for his grandsons

Aren’t they a bit young for flying lessons? Grandfather builds replica World War II plane for his grandsons

A West Virginia man is making the best of his retirement – while giving his grandsons the coolest playground in town. Bo Lakatos, of Morgantown retired last year, and it wasn’t long before he passed the extra time while putting his building smarts to good use. The project, a life-sized replica of the P-40 warplane [...]

Skeleton of hero World War II carrier pigeon found in chimney with a secret message still attached to its leg (and now Bletchley Park are trying to crack the code)

Skeleton of hero World War II carrier pigeon found in chimney with a secret message still attached to its leg (and now Bletchley Park are trying to crack the code)

Skeleton of hero World War II carrier pigeon found in chimney with a secret message still attached to its leg (and now Bletchley Park are trying to crack the code) David Martin, 74, found the stricken bird when he opened the disused fire place while renovating his Surrey home It is thought the pigeon may [...]

Legendary American soldier who fought in World War 2, Korea and Vietnam and was immortalized in ‘We Were Soldiers’ dies aged 92

Legendary American soldier who fought in World War 2, Korea and Vietnam and was immortalized in ‘We Were Soldiers’ dies aged 92

Renowned career soldier and war hero Basil L. Plumley – one of a select few to have fought in World War II, the Korean War and Vietnam – has died at 92. Plumley is a legend in the U.S. Army for his exploits and was awarded a medal for making five parachute jumps into combat. [...]

Weapons of World War 2

World War 2 Weapon – M1 Bayonet

World War 2 Weapon – M1 Bayonet

  The M1 Bayonet is a bayonet that was designed to be used with the M1 Garand and was used by the United States Military during WWII. The blade is 10 inches long and the handle is 4 inches long. Before 1943, the M1 Garand and the M1903 Springfield Rifle had to use the M1905 [...]

World War 2 Weapon – Ka-Bar Combat Knife

World War 2 Weapon – Ka-Bar Combat Knife

  A Ka-Bar Knife and sheath. The ‘Ka-Bar’ or the 1219C2 USMC Fighting/Utility knife was a combat knife that was issued to US troops during the Second World War. The knife had a 7 in Bowie type clip point blade, with a fuller or ‘blood grove’ on both sides. The clip edge is slightly concave [...]

Weapons Of World War 2 – DD Sherman tank

Weapons Of World War 2 – DD Sherman tank

The Duplex Drive The design goal in designing the Duplex Drive was to create a tank which could swim to an enemy held beach ahead of the infantry, instead of involving specialized landing craft for their delivery. These amphibious tanks could be unloaded a distance of approximately two miles from shore, where they would at [...]

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| November 9, 2011 | 3 Comments

World War 2 World War 2, also known as “WW2/WWII/The Second World War, started in 1939 after an unprovoked attack on Poland by Germany. After Hitler refused to stop his attacks on Poland, Britain and France declared war on Germany.   World War 2 – Germany invading Poland   Some countries did not join the [...]

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World War 2 – The Attack on Poland – The Beginning.

World War 2 – The Attack on Poland – The Beginning.

| March 31, 2012 | 0 Comments

World War 2 – The Attack on Poland The Invasion of Poland effectively began the Second World War. German mechanized and airborne components poured over the border in well-coordinated fast-moving land offensives and accurate air attacks in what became known as the “Lightning War” or Blitzkrieg. The Poles put up a valiant defense of their [...]

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Pearl Harbor: A Rude Awakening

Pearl Harbor: A Rude Awakening

| September 29, 2012 | 0 Comments

Introduction It all happened so quickly. At 7.55am on Sunday 7 December 1941, the first of two waves of Japanese aircraft began their deadly attack on the US Pacific Fleet, moored at Pearl Harbor on the Pacific island of Oahu. Within two hours, five battleships had been sunk, another 16 damaged, and 188 aircraft destroyed. [...]

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Hitler’s Invasion of Russia in World War Two

Hitler’s Invasion of Russia in World War Two

| September 29, 2012 | 0 Comments

Introduction In the whole of history there has never been a war like it. In its scale of destruction, the war on the Eastern Front was unique; from Leningrad to the Crimea, from Kiev to Stalingrad, the Soviet Union was devastated – at least 25 million Soviet citizens died. And in the end what did [...]

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The Liberation of Bergen-Belsen, 15 April 1945

The Liberation of Bergen-Belsen, 15 April 1945

| December 8, 2012

Commandant Josef Kramer was immediately arrested by the British liberators The Bergen-Belsen concentration camp was voluntarily turned over to the Allied 21st Army Group, a combined British-Canadian unit, on April 15, 1945 by Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, the man who was in charge of all the concentration camps. Bergen-Belsen was in the middle of the war [...]

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World War 2 Aircraft Images

World War 2 Aircraft Images

| December 7, 2012

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Holocaust Images

Holocaust Images

| November 27, 2012 | 0 Comments

Click any thumbnail below to see larger image and description. WARNING – Images are graphic and uncensored, there are many images of  deceased victims, who remain and will always apart of our history.  

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Photographs Documenting the Holocaust in Hungary

Photographs Documenting the Holocaust in Hungary

| November 27, 2012 | 0 Comments

  When the Soviet Army captured Budapest on January 17-18, 1945, it was too late to save the lives of 564,500 Jews who had been sent to the various death-camps run by the Nazis. The Budapest SS headquarters, however, was over-run by the Soviets before the Nazis were able to destroy a huge number of [...]

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| November 2, 2012 | 0 Comments

World War 2 This is a video about the Russian Red Army’s actions whilst at World War 2

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The Army Nurse Corps

The Army Nurse Corps

| October 21, 2012 | 0 Comments

Introduction World War II was the largest and most violent armed conflict in the history of mankind. However, the half century that now separates us from that conflict has exacted its toll on our collective knowledge. While World War II continues to absorb the interest of military scholars and historians, as well as its veterans, [...]

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