The Allied bombing of Hamburg on 27-07-1943 during World War II included numerous strategic bombing missions and diversion/nuisance raids. As a large port and industrial centre, Hamburg’s shipyards, U-boat pens and the Hamburg-Harburg area oil refineries were attacked throughout the war. The attack during the last week of July 1943, Operation Gomorrah, the name Gomorrah comes from that of one of the two Canaanite cities of Sodom and… Read more »
Treblinka was an extermination camp built and operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War Ii It was located in a forest north-east of Warsw 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) south of the Treblinka train station in what is now the Masovian Voivodeshin, the administrative region of the Kingdom of Poland, and of the Polish–Lithuanian …. The camp operated between 23… Read more »
While Adolf Hitler garnered much approval in his early days of leadership, many Germans soon began to see the folly of keeping such a man in power. As such, more than fifteen assassination attempts were made on his life. A few of these are more notable than others, but they all share one thing in common—they all… Read more »
Recruitment for the Wehrmacht was accomplished through voluntary enlistment (1933–45) and conscription (1935–45), with 1.3 million being drafted and 2.4 million volunteering in the period 1935–1939.[37] The total number of soldiers who served in the Wehrmacht during its existence from 1935 to 1945 is believed to have approached 18.2 million.[13] As World War II intensified, Kriegsmarine and Luftwaffe personnel were increasingly… Read more »
Adolf Hitler’s sexuality has long been a matter of historical and scholarly debate, as well as speculation and rumour. There is evidence that he had relationships with a number of women during his lifetime, as well as evidence of his antipathy to homosexuality, and no evidence of homosexual encounters. His name has been linked to a… Read more »