The plot to assasinate Hitler by Claus von Stauffenberg - looks like it could be worth a watch, especially as it's directed by Kenneth Brannagh....
Blitzkrieg "lightning war" was the key to Germany’s successes on land during the first half of the war, and speed was the essence of blitzkrieg....
By 1934 the Nazi stormtroop force, the SA or Brownshirts, had become dangerously powerful, Hitler sensed this and so decided to destroy it. In the...
A club foot kept Paul Josef Goebbels (1897-1945) out of World War One. He spent most of the war at Heidelberg University, where he gained a...
Enough here to start a debate.. :oops: Benito Mussolini was born in Predappio, Romagna, July 29, 1883. Benito qualified as an elementary...
From what I know from school history, Dunkirk wasn't really a battle - it was the mass retreat of the BEF and the remains of the French military....
The Battle of Stalingrad is thought to have claimed more lives than any other single conflict of the Second World War. In 1942, April 5, Hitler...
Why on earth did Hitler hate the Freemasons so much?
I don't know if you guys are familar with Giles (used to be a cartoonist for the Daily Express) but I recently got hold of the entire collection...
[IMG] Al Bowlly ''Say, Don't You Remember? They Called Me Al'' With enduring hits like Goodnight Sweetheart; The Very Thought Of You;...
Doies anyone know why the Germans on thier retreat from Paris did not raise the city, I have always found it curious that they left it intact?
On 1 September, German forces overran Poland. The wide, open plains of Poland were ideally suited to the rapid movement of tanks central to a...
is it true that the British developed concentration camps (without the negative connotations that has today)? My father said it was to intern...
Found this to be a very good read, but what made think it is a litte biased!! On 1st September 1944 Eisenhower took over formal command of all...
These days you always hear about how Britain was able to withstand the German attacks on a daily basis and how heroic the Brits were. To go along...
Philip Zec was perhaps the most important of the political cartoonists during the war years. Over this time he produced more than fifteen hundred...
For the campaign against the Soviet Union, the Germans allotted three army groups, totalling approximately 3.3 million men, along with 1 million...
By the Spring of 1944, the Allied preparations for the invasion of France and the initial stages for the liberation of western Europe (Operation...
In the East, the vastness of space will … permit a loss of territory … without suffering a mortal blow to Germany’s chance for survival. Not so in...