Johann Günther Lütjens (25 May 1889 – 27 May 1941) was a German Admiral whose military service spanned more than thirty years and two world wars. Lütjens   is best known for his actions during World War II and his command of the battleship Bismarck during its foray into the Atlantic Ocean in 1941. In its aftermath, the episode entered into naval legend.  Lütjens born on 25 May 1889,… Read more »

Hitler created a public image of a celibate man without a domestic life, dedicated entirely to his political mission and the nation. He considered himself to be attractive to women, partly because of his position of power   . Minister of Armaments and War Production Albert Speer     recalled him stating a preference for unintelligent women who would not… Read more »

Like many Austrians, Adolf Hitler, born 20-04-1889 , began to get attracted to German nationalist ideas  from an early age. His father Alois Hitler  died when Hitler was 14 years old and subsequently, Hitler’s performance at school dropped. 2 years later he changed school and enrolled at a school in Steyr in Upper Austria. After… Read more »

Heinrich Gross was born in Vienna on 14 November 1915. His parents, Karl and Petronella Gross, were in the wool and knitwear business. His father died before Heinrich was born and his mother placed him in a Catholic boarding school for his early education. He  graduated from a public high school in 1934 and received… Read more »

Adolf Hitler, a man who swept the Germans up to incredible victories, was also the main reason Germany ultimately lost the war. He refused to accept reality, took no advice from his Generals and then made poor decisions.  This way he ensured a relatively quick end of Nazi Germany. Having no luck in enticing England… Read more »

  Hirō “Hiroo” Onoda, born 19 March 1922  was an Imperial Japanese Army intelligence officer who fought in World War II and was a Japanese holdout who did not surrender in August 1945. After Onoda spent 29 years holding out in the Philippines, his former commander traveled from Japan to personally issue orders relieving him from duty in 1974. He held the rank… Read more »

Angela Hammitzsch, previously Angela Raubal,  born as Angela Hitler (Braunau am Inn, on  28-07-1883  was the older half-sister of Adolf Hitler. Angela Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn (Austria), as the second child of Alois Hitler sr.  And his second wife Franziska Matzelsberger . When Angela was one year old, her mother died. Together… Read more »

Erwin Jekelius (born June 5, 1905 in Sibiu, † 8 May 1952 in the Soviet Union, was an Austrian psychiatrist and neurologist at the time of National Socialism and as T4 euthanasia expert in crime involved. Aktion T4 was a postwar name for mass murder through involuntary euthanasia in Nazi Germany. The name T4 is an abbreviation of Tiergartenstraße 4,  a street address of… Read more »

Gerardus Mooyman was born 23 September 1923 in Apeldoorn, Netherlands. He grew up in a very pro-German household. His father was a small time retailer whose business suffered greatly during the great depression, resulting in his joining of the NSB    in hope of a better future. Mooyman   spent his youth hearing stories about the triumphs of Hitler and national socialist Germany and admiring… Read more »

Tony Stein was a United states Marine who posthumously received the U.S. military’s highest decoration, and r, for his actions. He received the award for repeatedly making single-handed assaults against the enemy and for aiding wounded Marines during the initial assault on Iwa Jima on February 19, 1945. He was killed in action ten days later. Stein  was born in… Read more »