Volkswagen, Krupp, and Siemens didn’t just survive Nazi Germany. They built their fortunes on it. Cracking a joke about a serious existential war like World War II is mostly still not very much appreciated, not even after more than 80…
Millions died by his regime. But only one death may have been by his own hand. These days, the Holocaust hardly needs any explanation. Everyone knows what the Holocaust entails. But everyone also knows how many victims World War II…
It began in ancient Rome. Mussolini adopted it. Hitler copied it, and then lied about where it came from. The Nazi salute. As soon as you look up anything at all about World War II, you’re bound to come across…
How a student union campaign became state censorship, and why the Nazis feared the written word. It’s a recurring theme in history, and not just in the history of World War II. It’s been going on for ages. I’m talking,…
“Wir haben es nicht gewusst”. It’s an iconic and globally recognizable phrase. “We didn’t know.” Iconic, if you’ve ever read anything about the aftermath of World War II. You can hardly avoid it. It was the phrase used by the…
During World War II, people in the Pacific countries and islands heard a radio broadcast. In fact, it was immediately clear who these broadcasts were aimed at. For approximately 75 minutes a day from around 1943 through 1945, American soldiers…
The kidnapping of children by the Nazis. To this day, it’s not something you read about very often. Yet it did happen, and on a larger scale than one might initially think. The exact number of children kidnapped by the…
The Red Ball Express is generally well known in the history of the Second World War. A film of the same name has even been made about it. Yet the impact of the Red Ball Express is sometimes forgotten. It…
When one thinks of the resistance during the Second World War, the main movements that spring to mind are the French Resistance, La Résistance, and the Polish Home Army, Armia Krajowa. But the resistance could not have survived without information…
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…
