Here is a little more about the soldier who drove the bulldozer at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp at the time of its liberation – April 15th 1945. His name was Frank Chapman 14322433. He was 21 years old and a Sapper in the Royal Engineers, 619 Field Park Company. An article in ‘The Times’ of… Read more »
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise, but Japan and the United States had been edging toward war for decades. The United States was particularly unhappy with Japan’s increasingly belligerent attitude toward China. The Japanese government believed that the only way to solve its economic and demographic problems was to expand into its neighbor’s… Read more »
Hitler had been in control of Germany for six years when World War II began, and in that time had worked hard to create a formidable army, breaking many of the stipulations of the Treaty of Versailles. The establishment of the Hitler Youth essentially acted as a training programme for young men and women in… Read more »
Georg Nikolaus Lörner, born 18 February 1899 in Munich was an SS Gruppenführer and Generalleutnant of the Waffen SS, and Deputy Chief under SS Obergruppenführer Oswald Pohl of the Wirtschaftsunternehmen in the Main SS Economic and Administrative Department, SS WVHA, chief of Amtsgruppe B, (Division B) of the WVHA, and deputy chief of Amtsgruppe W (Division… Read more »
During his years with Hitler, Gerhard Michael Engel kept the diary in the form of six notebooks. With the unconditional surrender of Germany, he was held in American captivity and released in December 1947. After the war, he added material to shed further light on certain events, military and political decisions and Hitler’s attitude to particular… Read more »