A campaign has been launched to see a black South African Second World War hero who blew up a Nazi ship with a homemade bomb be awarded a Victoria Cross. British generals nominated Job Maseko for a VC but his South African commanders found the idea of a black man receiving such a prestigious medal … Read more
Anthony Blunt gave his Russian spymasters a collection of Royal letters so compromising, it could have been used to blackmail the Windsors, according to a leading figure in the KGB. Written by the Queen’s uncles, the Dukes of Windsor and Kent, to their German relatives, the correspondence is likely to show the depth of their … Read more
The shocking damage caused by Nazi air attacks on Britain during the Second World War has been laid bare in newly revealed colour footage. The historic footage was recorded in 1942 following a Luftwaffe attack on Bristol which saw multiple buildings and buses completely destroyed. Recorded just an hour after the German air force dropped … Read more
Thousands of craters made by WWII bombs dropped by Allies on Nazi fuel plants are uncovered in Poland using LIDAR technology Scientists mapped 6,000 WWII bomb craters in a region of Polar using LIDAR The craters were located in the Koźle Basin that was occupied by Nazi soldiers The map allowed experts to determine some … Read more
The gallantry medals awarded to one of the RAF’s finest Battle of Britain aces are being sold by his family for £200,000. Air Commodore Peter Malam Brothers destroyed 16 enemy aircraft during the Second World War. He was a veteran of the Battle of France, the Battle of Britain, the Dieppe raid and D-Day. In … Read more
The curious story of a Nazi finishing school on the southeast coast of England for daughters of the German regime has inspired a new film starring Dame Judi Dench. Augusta Victoria College in Bexhill-on-Sea educated two dozen daughters of prominent Nazi figures in the 1930s. The pupils included the goddaughter of Heinrich Himmler, the daughter … Read more
Megyn Kelly is leading criticism of a Los Angeles Times columnist who compared her neighbors to Nazi sympathizers and Hezbollah because they backed Donald Trump. The Brooklyn-based author, Virginia Heffernan, wrote in Friday’s paper that the ‘Trumpites’ next door to their ‘pandemic getaway’ in upstate New York had plowed her drive after a snow storm. … Read more
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943 saw 13,000 Jews killed as they attempted to prevent the Nazis from sending them to their deaths. Men, women and children courageously fought back against Hitler’s troops for three-and-a-half weeks; 59 police officers and members of the feared SS were killed or injured. The fightback was prompted by Nazi … Read more
Around 250,000 Jews were killed at the Sobibor Nazi death camp, located in Poland, and an excavation of the site reveals at least four children also died there during the Holocaust. Archaeologists working at the now closed camp uncovered four metal ID tags belonging to children ages five to 12, engraved with names, dates of … Read more
Visitors at Nazi Buchenwald concentration camp are condemned for tobogganing over mass graves where 76,000 people died during WWII The German WWII memorial urged visitors to avoid spending leisure pastimes People were spotted enjoying sledging at the mass graves while touring the site Buchenwald and its sub camp were used to house thousands of slave … Read more