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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The Third Reich had a number of top managers, who linked their ideals to the crimes of the same Third Reich. Albert Speer (armament), Wernher von Braun (rocket scientist), Alfred Jodl (general), Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach (the arms manufacturer), Hjalmar Schacht (the banker) and Ferdinand Porsche (the technician). They were men with a
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Updated 16/07/2026 The First World War, also known as the Great War, has a direct link with the Second World War. The inhabitants of this beautiful globe find it necessary to exterminate each other in time and destroy the planet. Cause number one is power. Power over another, over another part of our earth. If
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The fortress Eben–Emael is located near Maastricht and the village of Eben–Emael in Belgium and was part of the fortress belt around Liège. After the First World War, the Belgian government decided to build a previously missing defence work between the Albert Canal, the Meuse and the Ardennes. Due to the economic malaise, no money
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Updated 18/7/2025 Barnes Wallis and the Dancing Bomb Born on September 26, 1887, Barnes Neville Wallis, died 30 October 1979, was an English engineer and inventor of the “Dancing Bomb”. Operation Chastise – The Dambuster raid Operation Chastise was a very dangerous mission. The mission demanded very much of the pilots’ ability and the strategy
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Updated 1/02/2026 After the Doolittle raid on April 18, 1942, it was necessary for the Japanese to take action. Japan was committed to forcing the United States into a peace agreement under Japanese conditions as soon as possible. The immense industrial power of the United States was well known and feared by the Japanese. The
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Bill Millin was born on July 14, 1922, in Regina, Saskatchewan, to a father of Scottish descent. The family returned to Glasgow when William was three. His father became a police officer. William grew up and attended school in the Shettleston neighborhood. He joined the Territorial Army at Fort William and played bagpipes in the band of
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Updated 6/05/2025 In my blog of the bombing of Nijmegen, I already discussed the Allied preparations for the bombing and details about its execution. Here, I will get more into detail about bombing in general and how tactics evolved over time, from precision bombing of strategic targets to bombing raids designed to destroy as many
Remagen is a village located on the left bank of the Rhine, between Bonn and Koblenz. The bridge was a remnant from WW1. Construction took three years and was put into operation in 1918, mainly to be able to supply the German front in the west more quickly. The bridge was given the name of
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Updated 13/05/2026 In my other stories, it has already emerged that Adolf Hitler’s initiatives have caused untold suffering and victims. The bizarre battle of the Hürtgenwald and the battle of the Gustav Line, but especially the enormous number of victims of the concentration camps, stand out above that. But even these human dramas stand in
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