This is how Hitler launched an assault on Christmas itself
Nazism has always been a cancerous growth that infects everything around it. There was nothing the Socialist National German Workers’ Party wouldn’t do to erase Judaism from the face of…
4 German designs used by Japan in WWII
Although the Japanese feudal period ended at the turn of the 17th century, isolationist policies delayed the country’s advancement compared to western nations. The shogunate and samurai culture persisted until…
Today in military history: Royal Air Force bombs Hamburg
On Nov. 16, 1940, the Royal Air Force bombed the German city of Hamburg. The Battle of Britain began the summer before, with the German Luftwaffe launching large scale attacks…
The German MG42 was a unyielding weapon of death in World War II
There’s a reason Germany’s enemies called the MG42 “Hitler’s Buzzsaw.” It could fire 1,200 rounds per minute, twice the rate of the M1919 Browning Machine Gun and it did it…
The 5 bloodiest battles of the 20th century
The 20th Century wasn’t a bloody, violent century because there were more wars or more people around to fight them. One of the first wars of the century ushered in…
These WWII bombers were converted into gunships
The idea of putting weapons on aircraft to strike ground targets is not a new one. Although the concept has culminated in the deadly AC-130 gunship today, it was employed…
Why Hitler hated red lipstick
Red lipstick is nothing less than a power move. For centuries, women have worn it to express themselves, and the shades are as varied as their meanings: confidence, sensuality, strength, courage, playfulness, and even rebellion. Dita Von Teese once …
How US troops responded to liberating the Dachau Concentration Camp
On April 28, 1945, just 25 days after the United States Army discovered Hitler’s terrible secret, the Ohrdruf Concentration Camp. The 3rd Battalion, 157th Infantry Regiment, 45th Infantry Division, commanded…
These four photos are the only ones ever taken inside a Nazi death camp
The “Sonderkommando Photographs” are the only known photos taken of the gas chambers and cremation pits at Auchwitz, the infamous Nazi death camp. Shot by a Greek prisoner, the four photos were smuggled to the Polish Resistance where the…
The second invasion of Nazi-occupied France that you’ve never heard of
On Aug. 15, 1944, a massive flotilla carrying approximately 200,000 heavily armed invaders surged from the Atlantic Ocean into Southern France. The men of the 6th Army Group were there to kill Nazis and chew bubblegum, and they were all out of bubbl…