Josef Terboven, born on 23-05-18989 in Essen, was a Nazi leader most known for his brutal leadership during the Nazi occupation of Norway. Terboven   was born the son of minor landed gentry. He served for the German field artillery and nascent air force in World War I and was awarded the Iron Cross . He was… Read more »

Upon the rise of Adolf Hitler and the National Sociaist Workers Party (the Nazi Party)  in Germany, gay men and, to a lesser extent, lesbians, were two of the numerous groups targeted by the Nazis and were ultimately among Holocaust victims. Beginning in 1933, gay organizations were banned, scholarly books about homosexuality, and sexuality in general, were burned, (such as those from the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, run… Read more »

The Georgian Uprising on Texel (Dutch: Opstand der Georgiërs) (5 April 1945 – 20 May 1945) was an Insurrection by the 882nd Infantry Battalion Königin Tamara, Queen Tamar of the Georgeon Legion  of the German Army, German Werhrmacht) stationed on the German occupied Dutch island of Texel.     The battalion was made up of 800 Georgians and 400 Germans, with mainly German officers…. Read more »

The following is an excerpt from the testimony of a former soldier and guard at the Rhine-Meadows camps, Martin Brech . The Rheinwiesenlager or Rhine meadow camps, were a group of 19 camps built in the Allied occupied part of Germany by the U.S. Army to hold captured German soldiers at the close of the Second World War. “In October 1944,… Read more »

Erwin von Witzleben  was born in Breslau, on 4th December, 1881. He joined the German army in March 1901 as a second lieutenant in the 7th Grenadier Regiment. On the outbreak of the First World War von Witzleben he was appointed Adjutant of the 19th Reserve Brigade. He served on the Western Front where he won… Read more »

German boxer and later Fallschirmjäger, Max Schmeling   returned to Germany in triumph on the June 23, 1936 voyage of the Hindenburg, after his victory over American boxer Joe “Barrow” Louis.    On May 6, 1937, the German airship Hindenburg designed by Ferdinand von Zeppelin,  burst into flames 200 feet over its intended landing spot at New Jersey’s Lakehurst Naval Air… Read more »

Lebensborn.  “Fount of Life”, was an SS-initiated, state-supported, registered association in Nazi Germany with the goal of raising the birth rate of “Aryan” children via extramarital relations of persons classified as “racially pure and healthy” based on Nazi racal hygiene and health ideology. , Lebensborn encouraged anonymous births by unmarried women,   and mediated adaption of these children by likewise “racially pure and healthy” parents, particularly… Read more »

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 »