If you say Enigma, then you say Alan Turing. It’s an inseparable link in the history of the Second World War. Alan Turing played an indispensable role in cracking the so-called Enigma code during the Second World War. To achieve…
Two Allies, two doctrines, one common goal: ensuring the downfall of Nazi Germany from the air. But can the Allies achieve their goal when they both have their own fundamental beliefs about their enduringly different doctrines? The key players were…
The Kingdom of Bavaria, the scene of the culmination of German collective discontent and crises during the interwar period in the run-up to World War II. There was, however, one city where the NSDAP had already secured a political majority…
After the horrors of Stalingrad, the collapse of the Eastern Front, Operation Bagration, and the aftermath of the Allied landings on the Western Front during D-Day, Hitler was ready to make his final desperate move: the Volkssturm. The Volkssturm was…
It is September 3, 1939. The United Kingdom officially declared war on Hitler’s Germany, the Third Reich. It was only two days after the German invasion of Poland. That same day, the Kriegsmarine was preparing for its upcoming operation in…
Immediately after Nazi Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union, Stalin began pressing for aid from the West, primarily from the United States of America. However, Stalin did not have to wait long for the symbolic gesture that followed. June 22,…
Throughout its brief history, the Weimar Republic was often plagued by instability. But among these periods of instability, the hyperinflation of 1923 stands out as the most significant. And especially what resulted from that hyperinflation. A culmination of this was…
