“We Cannot Beat Them” — The German Admission That Australia Had Already Won the Western Front. nu
“We Cannot Beat Them” — The German Admission That Australia Had Already Won the Western Front On the morning of the 9th of August, 1918, Erich Ludendorff walked into the presence of Kaiser Wilhelm the Second went and said the…
WWII Shock Story: German Women POWs React to the Freedom of American Women | It Felt Impossible. nu
WWII Shock Story: German Women POWs React to the Freedom of American Women | It Felt Impossible May 17th, 1945. A gray, windy afternoon at New York Harbor. A ship groaned under the weight of women in drab uniforms, hair…
What Patton’s Men Did When the Arrogant Camp Commander Demanded a Salute. nu
What Patton’s Men Did When the Arrogant Camp Commander Demanded a Salute April 1945 The American war machine is tearing through the heart of the German homeland. General George S. Patton’s legendary Third Army is advancing faster than the maps…
The 3-Minute System That Terrified Germany. nu
The 3-Minute System That Terrified Germany Late 1944, in the ruins of Normandy, a German intelligence officer examines a captured American device. It’s a heavy green metal box with a telephone handset and a long whip-like antenna. His initial assessment…
What Patton Did When Germans Chained Children to a Bridge. nu
What Patton Did When Germans Chained Children to a Bridge February 1945 a massive steel bridge spans the frozen Sauer River near Eckernack on the border between Luxembourg and Germany black water rushes beneath icy girders while heavy German supply…
German POW Women Thought Coca-Cola Was Medicine — Then They Took Their First Sip. nu
German POW Women Thought Coca-Cola Was Medicine — Then They Took Their First Sip December 3rd, 1944. The mess hall at Camp Sherman, Ohio, fell into an unusual silence as Sergeant Vernon Hughes wheeled in a metal cart laden with…
What Patton Did When He Found Out His Men Were Being Fed Rotten Food. nu
What Patton Did When He Found Out His Men Were Being Fed Rotten Food October 1944, France. The Third Army had been moving for two solid months straight. Private First Class Raymond Kowalski had been sick for 4 days straight….
Why Germans Were Shocked as the M36 Jackson’s 90mm Gun Destroyed Tiger Tanks at 3,000 Yards. nu
Why Germans Were Shocked as the M36 Jackson’s 90mm Gun Destroyed Tiger Tanks at 3,000 Yards December 16th, 1944. 5:30 in the morning. 2,000 German guns opened fire at the same moment. The ground shook for 85 mi. Trees exploded….
Churchill’s 3 Words About Patton Destroyed Montgomery’s Reputation in One Second. nu
Churchill’s 3 Words About Patton Destroyed Montgomery’s Reputation in One Second London. March 1945. Deep beneath Whitehall, in the war rooms, Winston Churchill stands over a map of Germany. Cigar smoke curls in the stale air. His eyes are fixed…
The Simple British Hampden Torpedo Trick That Crippled German Warships in Norwegian Darkness. nu
The Simple British Hampden Torpedo Trick That Crippled German Warships in Norwegian Darkness 9th April, 1942. The sky above the Norwegian coastline is the color of a bruise. That particular shade of dark violet that settles over the fjords in…