Updated: 11/11/2024 Request from Stalin The Blitzkrieg, invented by Heinz Guderian, Erich von Manstein and Erwin Rommel, had ensured that countries such as Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, France and in the east countries such as Poland, Hungary, Czechoskia were overrun by the Wehrmacht in no time. Hitler, in his face with these successes, then, despite
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Updated 30/03/2026 A number of strange strategic decisions were made in the second world war, which later in the battle led to an unnecessary amount of additional casualties and a huge loss of material. Now it is the case that in the heat of the battle a wrong decision can be made, but the decisions
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In the previous article about the B-17, I already referred to the bombing of Nijmegen on February 22, 1944. Several Dutch cities were bombed multiple times during WWII. Rotterdam, initially razed to the ground by the Germans, was also bombed by Allied air raids on the port area. The Hague was attacked with a precision
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Updated 26/05/2026 One word is omitted from the opening lines above. The title of this story is actually “The Nazi Murder Factories,” according to a new book I recently received. Why then not the word “Nazi” in the title? The answer is simple because, in this day and age, numerous regimes and commanders are still
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It is clear that the Battle of England, a fight in the air that was unprecedented, marked the final death knell for the aspirations of the Third Reich. The loss of aircraft and the limited production of new aircraft due to the many strategic bombings of the Allies, resulted in an Allied force majeure in
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Alan MageeIn 1943, Alan Magee, serving as a crew member of a B-17, took part in a bombing raid on Saint-Nazaire. The raid caused massive destruction. Magee, however, had not yet seen enough, and he leapt from his B-17, seemingly determined to cause even more damage below. The result of his freefall without a parachute