The 23rd SS Volunteer Panzer Grenadier Division Nederland was a German Wafffen SS division comprising volunteers from the Netherlands. It saw action on the Easter Front during World War II. The Dutch soldiers were planned to be a part of the Nordland division but after protests from the Dutch nazi-party, National Socialistische Beweging (NSB), it was decided that they would form their own division…. Read more »
The Beer Hall Putsch, also known as the Munich Putsch, and, in German, as the Hitlerputsch or Hitler-Ludendorff-Putsch, was a failed coup attempt by the Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler — along with Generalquartiermeister Erich Ludendorff and other Kampfbund leaders — to seize power in Munich, Bavaria, during 8–9 November 1923. By midmorning on 9 November, Erich Ludendorff cried out, “Wir marschieren!” (We will march!) and Ernst Röhm force together with… Read more »
In late June 1942, the Jewish Council was informed that the Jews would have to work in labour camps in Germany. In Amsterdam, 4,000 summons were sent, but many of the summoned Jews did not report for work. As a result, the Germans rounded up 700 Jews on 14 July 1942. This group was to… Read more »
In Nazi Germany established brothels in the concentration camps to create an incentive for prisoners to collaborate, although these institutions were used mostly by Kapos, “prisoner functionaries” and the criminal element, because regular inmates, penniless and emaciated, were usually too debilitated and wary of exposure to Schutzstaffel (SS) schemes. In the end, the camp brothels did not produce any… Read more »
Yang Kyoungjong born March 3, 1920 in the Korea Japanese Protectorate is to date the only soldier to fight on three sides of a war, and this legendary status has earned him much recognition., In 1938, at the age of 18, Yang was in Manchuria when he was consripted into the Kwantung Army of the Imperial Japanese Army to… Read more »
Matthäus Hetzenauer, born 23-12-1924 in Brixem im Thale, was an Austrian sniper in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany. He served in the 3rd Mountain Division on the Eastern Front, who was credited with 345 kills. His longest confirmed kill was reported at 1,100 meters (1,200 yards). Hetzenauer was also a recipient of the Knight Cross of the Iron… Read more »
The Wannsee Conference was a meeting of senior officials of Nazi Germany, held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee on 20 January 1942. Under them Adolf Eichmann, Roland Freisler, Heinrich Müller and Erich Neumann. The purpose of the conference, called by director of the Reich Main Security Office (RSHA) SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich, was to ensure the cooperation of administrative leaders of various government… Read more »
Educated at West Point, George Smith Patton (1885-1945) began his military career leading cavalry troops against Mexican forces and became the first officer assigned to the new U.S. Army Tank Corps during World War I. Promoted through the ranks over the next several decades, he reached the high point of his career during World War… Read more »
May 10th, 1940 to June 14th, 1940. The armistice between France and Germany was signed on June 22nd .The majority of the battles centered within Belgium up to the Channel coast and across northern France. Prior to the invasion of the Soviet Union, Hitler and his Generals planned the conquest of France and the Low… Read more »
Adolf Galland is probably the best-known German fighter pilot. He was born in Westerholt, Westfalen, on 19 March 1912 and in his youth he flew gliders on the heath nearby. In 1932 he started training as an airline pilot, but in those days the Germans were secretly building an air force (under the Peace Treaty… Read more »
