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How to summarize a period of 5 years of untold suffering with more than 60 million victims in a limited number of lines? When Hitler was ready to fight in 1938, everything went smoothly in the beginning. Despite the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles at the end of the First World War, the Allies […]

Updated 12/03/2025 In the story of the (Nazi) Murder factories, the Nazi concentration camps, the Einsatzgrüppen, Sonderkommandos, the ghettos and the death marches have been discussed extensively. The incredible amount of suffering the victims faced is actually incomprehensible. All thanks to the efforts of SS men Heinrich Himmler, Reinhart Heydrich and later his successor Ernst

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

Updated 6/01/2025 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

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,

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

Updated 14/11/2025 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

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

Updated 15/11/25 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