Why this World War II British fighter was painted pink
The part of the day wIth the sun setting or rising in the hours after a bombing raid can be a dangerous time for the enemy who just bombed a…
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…
Listen to a German WWI veteran describe killing on the Western Front
Stephan Westmann was a German physicist who studied and taught at the University of Berlin during the interwar years. When the Nazi Party rose to power in Germany in the…
This army sent scouts to find the mythical city of Shangri La
An earthly paradise, a place of unimaginable beauty, breathtaking community cut off from the rest of the world could best describe the mythical city of Shangri La. As envisioned by…
The 5 fastest conquests of France in military history
The French, despite actually being very good in a war, take a beating as the butt of military history jokes. Most of this is due to the speed of the…
A French village was abandoned and rebuilt so no one would forget a Nazi war crime
In April 1944, an American B-17 Flying Fortress was shot down by flak over occupied France. Its navigator, Raymond J. Murphy landed relatively safely, and with the help of some…
U.S. serviceman helped liberate Nazi concentration camp
For nearly four decades, Al Ungerleider dedicated his life to serving his country. He was an infantry officer who saw active combat in World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War, rising to the rank of brigadier general.
Ungerleider expe…
The teenage girls who seduced and killed Nazis
When the Nazis steamrolled into the Netherlands in May of 1940, Jannetje Johanna “Hannie” Schaft and Truus and Freddie Oversteegen were just 19, 16, and 14 years old respectively.
As for the Oversteegen sisters, their mother, Trijn, had …
Russia wants Canada to hand over files on ex-Nazi death squad interpreter
Russia says it has asked Canada to hand over case files on a 95-year-old former Nazi death-squad member to help Moscow investigate the mass murder of children at a Soviet orphanage during World War II.
Helmut Oberlander, who was born in Uk…
The Nazis had a super creepy breeding program
It may seem like attempted genocide on an international scale would have been enough for the Nazis and their dreams of racial purity. But they were proactive ethno-nationalists who were just as interested in extra-marital breeding and kidnapping as …