Estimates of the total German war dead range from 5.5 to 6.9 million persons. A study by German historian Rüdiger Overmans puts the number of German military dead and missing at 5.3 million, including 900.000 men conscripted from outside of Germany’s 1937 borders, in Austria, and in east-central Europe. Overmans estimated in 2014 that in all about 353.000… Read more »
Kurt Daluege was born in Kreuzburg on September 15, 1897. He joined the German Army and during the First World War he was decorated for bravery. After the war, Daluege worked as an engineer. He was also active in the Freikorps before joining the National Socialist German Workers Party, the NSDAP in 1922. He formed the… Read more »
Jürgen Wagner, born 9 September 1901 in Strasbourg, was the son of Ernst Wagner, a German physicist, professor at the University of Munich. He was known for his work on X-rays and the absolute value of the high pressure. Jürgen in his youth, attended several schools, including in Wesel, Muenster and Erfurt. In 1915 he joined the Cadet… Read more »
On the way to destroying Nanking, two Japanese army officers, Tsuyoshi Noda and Toshiaki Mukai entered into a friendly competition with one another—who would be the first to kill 100 people with a sword during the war? The bloodshed began on the road, as the Japanese army advanced to Nanking, and continued through the rape of… Read more »
To this day, Arthur Nebe remains a controversial figure in the history of the German conspiracy against Hitler. Having been a major figure in Heinrich Himmler’s SS empire as Head of the Kriminalpolizei (Criminal Police) and later having belonged to Einsatzgruppen – B (attached to Army Group Center), Nebe has been posthumously accused of all manners of war crimes. But a… Read more »