On the night of the 13th June 1944 Londoners heard a strange sound in the sky. The sound was later described as sounding like a motorbike without a silencer or a badly maintained steam train going up hill. Some also saw, what they thought was a burning enemy aircraft crossing the sky with a sword… Read more »

Alwin-Broder Albrecht, was a German naval officer who was one of Adolf Hitler’s adjutants. He was born 18 September 1903 in Sankt Peter-Ording in the Province of Schleswig-Holstein. In 1922 he joined the Reichsmarine  On 1 June 1934, he was promoted to Papitänleutnant. Then on 1 November 1937, he was promoted to the rank of Korvettenkapitän. When Hitler’s liason officer to… Read more »

The Doolittle Tokyo Raiders was a group eighty men from all walks of life who flew into history on April 18, 1942. . The Raid was a total secret to all involved and the members of the raid were chosen by volunteering for a “dangerous secret mission”. The members did not know the target destination until… Read more »

The small village of Luttlange in Eastern France, is well off the tourist trail. War swept across it three times in less than a century and at the outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939 the area was protected by a section of the main Maginot Line British troops came to Luttange during the so-called… Read more »

On 18 April 1944, the 1st Provisional Marine Brigade  was activated, this time at Guadalcanal and placed in reservefor a time. commanded by Brigadier General Lemuel Cornick Shepherd. In July, it was moved to the Marchall Islands for a planned invasion of Guam, an island under the control of the Empire of Japan . This much larger brigade was built around… Read more »

Spandau Prison was a prison situated in the borough of Spandau in the British Sector of West Bwerlin. The prison was built in 1876 and knocked down in 1987 after the death of its last prisoner, Rudolf Hess. This was to stop it from becoming a neo Nazi shrine.The prison was built in 1876. At first it was only used… Read more »

Within nations occupied by the Axis Powers, some citizens, driven by nationalism, ethnic, hatred, anti Communism, anti Semitism or opportunism in collaboration with the Axis Powers during World War II. These collaborationists committed some of the worst war crimes, crimes against humanity and atrocities of the Holocaust. The Germans reformed pre-war Dutch police and established a new… Read more »

During the military occupation of modern-day Ukraine by Nazi Germany, the new territorial divisions of World War II included District Galizien and Reichskommissariat Ukraine administered by Reichskommissar Erich Koch   , overing both, the south-eastern territories of the Second Plosh Republic and the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic across former borders. After the war Koch stood trial in… Read more »

Walter Hermann Klingenbeck, born 30-03-1924, in Munich was a  German resistance fighter in the time of the Third Reich. Walter Klingenbeck  came from a Catholic family. He was a member of the St. Ludwig Catholic Youth Troop until it was banned and dissolved by the Nazi régime. This experience laid the groundwork for his critical stance towards the aforesaid… Read more »

The Italian invasion of France, also called the Battle of the Alps (10–25 June 1940), was the first major Italian engagement of World War II and the last major engagement of the Battle of France. Italy’s entry into the war widened its scope considerably in Africa and theMediterranean Sea. The goal of the Italian leader, Benito Mussolini, was the… Read more »