A Texas man thought to be the US Navy sailor kissing a nurse in an iconic end of World War Two photo has died. Glenn McDuffie died 09-03-2014 aged 86 at a nursing home in Dallas on Sunday, his daughter said. McDuffie’s claim to be the man in the famed VJ day photo was… Read more »
By far his greatest weakness was his belief that he was a military and strategic genius. He wasn’t. He had some startling early successes, but the longer the war went on, the more out of touch he became with the realities on the ground. He ignored the evidence because he was so certain that he… Read more »
Erich Topp was born 02-07-1914 in Hanover, the son of engineer John Topp, and joined the Reichsmarine in 1934, serving his first stint after being commissioned as Leutnant zur See on the light cruiser Karlsruhe in 1937, before transferring to the U-Bootwaffe in October 1937. In May 1933, Topp joined the Nazi Party and in… Read more »
The Waffen-SS ( Armed SS) was the armed wing of the Nazi Party’s Schutzstaffel (SS, “Protective Squadron”). Its formations included men from Nazi Germany, along with volunteers and conscripts from both occupied and un-occupied lands. The origins of the Waffen-SS can be traced back to the selection of a group of 120 SS men in March 1933 by… Read more »
Some German Jews escaped the Holocaust by fleeing the country, others hid and some battled to stay alive long enough to be freed from the Nazi death camps. But Ernst Moritz Hess owed his survival to the personal intervention of Adolf Hitler. The Fuhrer ordered his SS thugs to leave the Jewish judge alone because Hess… Read more »