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The Hitler Salute Was Never German

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The Battle for the Reichstag That Never Happened

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Why Nazi Germany Never Built the Atomic Bomb

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The Night the Nazis Burned 25,000 Books

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NSDAP supporters march through Munich, c. 1930

Bavaria 1930: How Beer Halls Became Town Halls

The War

The iconic "Raising a flag over the Reichstag" photo by Yevgeny Khaldei.

The Battle for the Reichstag That Never Happened

A carrier crew of 8th Rifle Brigade hands out chocolate to Dutch civilians during the advance of 11th Armoured Division in Holland, 22 September 1944.

The Liberation of the Netherlands: Why Freedom Had to Wait

a U.S. soldier views corpses of 84 executed U.S. POWs

Massacre at Malmedy: The War Crimes Kampfgruppe Peiper Left Behind

Altstadt (old city), Dresden in the late 19th century. View from the War Ministry.

The Burning of Dresden: 25,000 Dead and a Question That Remains

German soldiers of the 24th Panzer Division in action during the fighting for the southern station of Stalingrad.

The Battle for Stalingrad’s Factory District

U.S. Army troops crouch behind the bulwarks of a landing craft as it nears Omaha Beach on D-Day. Credit: U.S. Coast Guard photo by Chief Photographers Mate Robert F. Sargent

First Wave, Lasting Courage: Easy Red, 6 June 1944

Life in Focus

Oberleutnant Albert Göring

The Other Göring: The Forgotten Anti-Nazi Brother

Home Front and Society

Adolf Hitler and his staff salute the teams during the opening ceremonies of the XI Olympic Games

The Hitler Salute Was Never German

Joseph Schorer: Book Burning.

The Night the Nazis Burned 25,000 Books

"Selection" of Hungarian Jews on the ramp at Auschwitz-II-Birkenau in German-occupied Poland, May/June 1944, during the final phase of the Holocaust. Jews were sent either to work or to the gas chamber.

Wir Haben Es Nicht Gewusst: What Did Ordinary Germans Really Know About the Holocaust?

B-29 "Tokyo Rose" crew, Saipan, 1944. NARA / U.S. Air Force. Public domain.

Tokyo Rose: The Myth of the Radio Voice That Never Was

Photo showing a child's baptism (christening) ceremony/ritual; conducted by members of the SS at a "Lebensborn e.V." maternity care home in Rheinhessen

Children Stolen by Design: The Nazi Kidnapping Program

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The Red Ball Express: Black soldiers and the logistics of liberation

Strategy & Intelligence

Dismantling the German experimental nuclear pile at Haigerloch

Why Nazi Germany Never Built the Atomic Bomb

Polish uhlan with wz. 35 anti-tank rifle.

The Cavalry Charge That Never Happened

Fortress Misplaced: Strategy That Doomed the Maginot Line

Fortress Misplaced: Strategy That Doomed the Maginot Line

The Enigma handover — what Polish intelligence shared with the Allies in 1939

The Enigma handover — what Polish intelligence shared with the Allies in 1939

CLASSIC precision bombing featured this attack by 100 B-17s on a Focke-Wulf plant at Marienburg on Oct. 9, 1943

RAF vs USAAF: The Bombing Doctrine Split That Divided the Allies

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What America Sent East: Lend-Lease and the Soviet War Machine

Arms & Equipment

A battery of Katyusha rocket launchers firing at the enemy, German forces, during the Battle of Stalingrad

The Stalin Organ: Why German Troops Feared the Katyusha Above All Else

Italy - Damaged Tiger (P) "Elefant" tank destroyer (Sd.Kfz. 184) (8.8cm); PK 699

The Tank Coating That Solved a Problem Nobody Had

German “Tiger” Tank, WWII

The Tiger I tank: Design brilliance versus production reality

Aftermath & Legacy

Lost in the Blitz. Found in 2020. The Story Behind Reflections of War

Lost in the Blitz. Found in 2020. The Story Behind Reflections of War

Rear entrance to the Führerbunker in the garden of the Reich Chancellery, Berlin

Below Berlin: The Fate of the Führerbunker After World War II

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