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Zeppelins: the beginning of modern warfare
While the Blitz and the Battle of Britain are well documented and constantly appraised, people rarely talk about the ‘First Blitz’, the Zeppelin bombardment in World War One. But Dr Hugh Hunt, a...
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Life as a German Soldier – Amazing pictures from a Soldier in a nation...
War History Online has discovered a number of amazing photo albums from German Soldiers depicting every day life (and death) in the years leading up to and then including World War 2. They give a...
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Life as a German Soldier – Amazing pictures from a Soldier in a nation...
War History Online has discovered a number of amazing photo albums from German Soldiers depicting every day life (and death) in the years leading up to and then including World War 2. They give a...
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Operation N: a complex of sabotage, subversion and black-propaganda...
Operation N (Polish: Akcja N, where “N” comes from the Polish word “Niemcy,” meaning “Germans” or “Germany”) was a complex of sabotage, subversion and black-propaganda activities carried out by the...
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A pig’s tale: the porker called Tirpiz that jumped ship in the first world war
When the British guns began to fire, the Germans knew the game was up. As SMS Dresden took on water, its crew jumped ship. One of the last to abandon the vessel was a colossal pig, launching herself...
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Sd. Kfz. 9 Famo
This 18-ton vehicle is the heaviest of the German semitrack prime movers. It is often used by the Germans in the evacuation of their damaged tanks. It has a net weight of 16.8 tons and a combat weight...
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The Field Artillery Journal discussed the actions of M10 tank destroyers in...
Far more German tanks have been knocked out during the North African and Italian Campaigns by one TD battalion than by any other. That battalion has had about the lowest losses in proportion to tanks...
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The invasion of Iceland, codenamed Operation Fork, was a British military...
The invasion of Iceland, codenamed Operation Fork, was a British military operation conducted by the Royal Navy, the Royal Marines and a Canadian task force during World War II. The invasion began in...
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Canada at War: Clearing the Coast
After the Normandy Campaign, the First Canadian Army was given the task of clearing the coastal areas in the North of France (Dieppe, Dunkirk, Boulogne, Calais etc.) and opening the channel ports for...
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The Stasi puzzle with 600 million pieces – Reconstructing shredded files
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, officials in the former East Germany did everything they could to destroy documents. But modern technology could now help piece together the puzzle. The former...
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Battle of the Bulge
Courtesy The United States Army Center of Military History Early on the misty winter morning of 16 December 1944, over 200,000 German troops and nearly 1,000 tanks launched Adolf Hitler’s last bid to...
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Plan Z was the name given to the planned re-equipment and expansion of the...
Commissioned in Hamburg in late 1942, the U 534 is a Type IX C 40 long-range ocean going submarine.On May 5th, the day after all German forces in Northern Europe surrendered, a R.A.F. Liberator from...
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German WWI Aces Kicked it Up
Yes, I know, right now you’re wondering what is so surprising about that. Apparently there has been a myth that German Aces of the Air were disciplined and dignified and only the British side kicked...
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The Gothic Line: Canada’s Month of Hell
“Stretching like an armor-toothed belt across Italy’s upper thigh, the Gothic Line was the most fortified position the German army had yet thrown into the Allied forces’ path. On August 25, 1944, it...
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INVASION OF POLAND, SEPTEMBER 1st 1939
One of Adolf Hitler’s first major foreign policy initiatives after coming to power was to sign a nonaggression pact with Poland in January 1934. This move was not popular with many Germans who...
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operation-werwolf-nazi-plan-create-commando-force
Werwolf (German for “werewolf”) was the name given to a Nazi plan, which began development in 1944, to create a commando force which would operate behind enemy lines as the Allies advanced through...
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Ex-SS man Siert Bruins due in German court
A 92-year-old former SS officer is to appear in court today. Bruins is accused of the murder of a Dutch resistance fighter in 1944. Siert Bruins who is Dutch will be in the Hagen court room and if...
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Envoy Sent to London: Berlin Denies Rift with UK over WWI Centenary
The German government has denied British media reports that it tried to influence the tone of Britain’s planned ceremonies to mark the centenary of the outbreak of World War I. A spokesman has...
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The Fucile Mitragliatore Breda modello 30 light machine gun
The Fucile Mitragliatore Breda modello 30 was the standard light machine gun of the Royal Italian Army during World War II. The Breda M30 or Breda 30, was rather unusual for a light machine gun. It...
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JOHN DEMJANJUK: PROSECUTION OF A NAZI COLLABORATOR
Overview Born in Ukraine, John (Iwan) Demjanjuk was the defendant in four different court proceedings relating to crimes that he committed while serving as a collaborator of the Nazi regime....
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