On this website you will find a separate story about the bombing that took place during the Second World War. The bombing of Nijmegen has been added separately, initially to give an idea of how a bombing of Nazi Germany started, but in the second instance also because it was a special “friendly fire” bombardment. […]
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SS-Sturmbrigade Dirlewanger, the Himmelfahrtskommando In my story about the Murder Factories, I have already mentioned Oscar as one of the biggest criminals in World War II. Now the number of criminals working in the concentration camps and at the Einsatzgruppen and Sonderkommandos were numerous. If I have to describe all of them, this story will
Updated 22/06/2026 The Geneva Convention is a collective term for the treaties drawn up in Geneva and which, as part of humanitarian law, determine the rules of law during an armed conflict. The treaties have been signed by all countries in the world. First version 1864 Improving the fate of wounded and sick forces on
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Updated 10/04/202 5 The role of the 1.5 million African-Americans who were part of the U.S. military has always been underexposed. Of these 1.5 million, 900,000 were sent to Europe. The treatment of African-Americans at the beginning of World War II showed parallels with German anti-Semitism. Hitler, the greatest racist in Europe, was thus fought
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Updated 26/02/2026 As a fugitive for the Nazis because you didn’t want to be employed in Germany, or because you are of Jewish origin, then one had many enemies, but the police are your best comrade? Right? Yeah? What kind of problems could someone expect in the Netherlands in the Second World War: Gestapo The
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Updated 30/10/2025 In the other stories “The War in the Pacific – The Attack on Pearl Harbor” and the sequel in “The Battle of the Coral Sea, Midway and the Philippines Sea” an important part of the war in the Pacific is described. These two stories mainly explain how the Japanese’s attack on Pearl Harbor
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Updated 22/04/24 A cat has nine lives, Hitler had at least 42 lives. According to an expression from ancient Egypt, a cat has nine lives. For the Egyptians, cats were sacred animals. Sun god Ra took the form of a cat during his travels to the underworld and Ra would have given life to eight
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Updated 26/03/2026 The Treaty of Versailles and the Weimar Republic The Second World War is inextricably linked to the First World War. The Treaty of Versailles marked the formal end of the First World War and became effective on October 28, 1919. The Dictation of Versailles was seen as a severe humiliation of the Germans
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Until the beginning of December 1941, the United States was not involved in the war. After the end of WW1, the Americans were not eager to plunge into a war again. In the 1930s, Japan was overpopulated and had a great lack of raw materials. To satisfy the expansion drive and to get raw materials,
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Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of Normandy and what has already taken place in the Pacific, caused Nazi Germany and Japan to face powerful opponents. After the failure of Barbarossa, it was not long before Germany faced a front in the east. The Normandy landings provided a front in the west and in the Pacific Japan
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