Even if the BEF had gone into the bag in 1940 , if Britain did not surrender she would have had to be invaded. In 1940 Germany did not have the...
In the immediate pre war period the Nazi plan had been to deport all the Jews to a reservation well away from Germany and abandon them so that...
Not only were the Generals and Soldaten bugged - so were the scientists. There was a camp somewhere in Britain for top German scientists interned...
Although primarily an engined version of a transport glider (using French engines) a number of other uses were attempted. One was as a gun ship to...
The basic flaw in the OP is failing to define what the job of a destroyer was in the latter half of WW2. Without this definition the question of...
Gerlach makes the point that survival almost always did depend upon being transferred for slave labour but only because this deferred death long...
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Good old DM - at least 4 year old news. The testing of the rubber boots detailed in 2016 if not before Cesarani David Final Solution the Fate of...
Not just accents Imagine you are driving near the Wirral in NW England - the road crosses a railway track, there is no gate but newly installed...
The Donegal coast further down towards Mullaghmore in Sligo has many places where the sea has eroded the rocks leaving narrow fissures that open...
What is the source for this please?
How long ago was this? When I was at Centurion in Gosport (doing a review of their computer installation) it was the RNs payoll centre. It had...
Thought it was the other way round - HMS Egmont III was a ship until she was sold for scrap in 1933 and the function moved into St Angelo
Essentially either a floating office/depot/accommodation unit usually an old obsolete warship or a stone/concrete frigate - an office block that...
No I did not talk about any what ifs but what was in Hitler's own written future plans. You are doing the what ifs
It's clear from Hitler's second book (written but not published) that he intended to deal with the Western democracies after the Soviet Union,...
Roosevelt and Churchill had reached an agreement that in Europe the Admiralty would take the naval lead and in the Pacific the Navy Department
In July 1936 Himmler placed a wreath on the tomb of Henry I and declared it a place of pilgrimage for all Germans as part of 3rd Reich Day. As he...
Himmler believed that he was the reincarnation of Henry I (Henry the Fowler) of Germany 876 – 936 and as the first King of Germany he was beyond...
At the end of WW1 British ordnance factories (shell filling stations, powder mills etc etc) had begun to shut down and most were demolished to...
