Italian POWs in California Thought They Were Being Punished When Given This Job. NU.
Italian POWs in California Thought They Were Being Punished When Given This Job At 9:47 on the morning of September 14th, 1943, Private Jeppe Tosselli stood in the processing yard at Fort McDow on Angel Island, San Francisco Bay, watching…
The 10-Year-Old Boy Who Stopped a Nazi Train by Changing the Track Signals All By Himself .NU.
The 10-Year-Old Boy Who Stopped a Nazi Train by Changing the Track Signals All By Himself On a frozen morning in February 1945, somewhere along the snow-covered rail lines cutting through occupied Belgium, a German military convoy carrying more than…
Der Lauf durch den Tod: Ein deutscher Melder im Schützengraben 1943. NE
Der Lauf durch den Tod: Ein deutscher Melder im Schützengraben 1943 Es gibt Bilder aus dem Zweiten Weltkrieg, die mehr sagen als jede Zahl oder Statistik. Das Foto eines Wehrmacht-Melders, aufgenommen im Frühjahr 1943 an der Ostfront, gehört zu diesen…
Deutsche Soldaten an der Front: Alltag und Kameradschaft im Ersten Weltkrieg. NE
Deutsche Soldaten an der Front: Alltag und Kameradschaft im Ersten Weltkrieg „Deutsche Soldaten versammeln sich um einen Weihnachtsbaum und feiern Weihnachten an der Westfront während des Ersten Weltkriegs.“ WWII – Deutsche Truppen in Deutschland kurz vor der Kapitulation. Zweiter Weltkrieg…
Erinnerungen aus den Schützengräben: Deutsche Soldaten im Ersten Weltkrieg (082201). NE
Erinnerungen aus den Schützengräben: Deutsche Soldaten im Ersten Weltkrieg (082201) Auf dem Foto deutsche Soldaten neben einem MG-34 Maschinengewehr während einer militärischen Ausbildung (1940). Deutsche Soldaten marschieren über ein Feld während der ersten Monate der Operation Barbarossa (1941). Man kann…
“They’ll Leave Us to Freeze” — German Women POWs Carried by U.S. Soldiers in a Blizzard.US.
“They’ll Leave Us to Freeze” — German Women POWs Carried by U.S. Soldiers in a Blizzard The Blizzard of Mercy: A WWII Story It was January 3rd, 1945, and the wind howled through the Wyoming winter training grounds with a…
“Please Don’t R*pe Us” German Women Shocked When American Soldiers Didn’t Even Touch Them. NU.
“Please Don’t R*pe Us” German Women Shocked When American Soldiers Didn’t Even Touch Them In the spring of 1945, as Nazi Germany collapsed under the weight of Allied advance, fear traveled faster than any army. For millions of German civilians,…
Japanese Mothers Wept When American Nurses Saved Their Dying Children. NU.
Japanese Mothers Wept When American Nurses Saved Their Dying Children In August 1945, the war was finally over, but peace did not feel like peace for the people of Japan. The sound of bombs had faded, yet silence itself felt…
German Pows Shocked as US Soldiers Protect Them from Death During Power Outage. NU.
German Pows Shocked as US Soldiers Protect Them from Death During Power Outage The Watch of Mercy Camp Shelby, Mississippi – October 12th, 1944 The night was thick with the kind of cold that freezes the marrow, a sharp wind…
German POWs Thought America Winter Would Kill Them – Until Locals Showed Them How to Survive It. NU.
German POWs Thought America Winter Would Kill Them – Until Locals Showed Them How to Survive It Mercy in the Snow Camp McCoy, Wisconsin, December 2nd, 1944. The air was biting, sharp, and cruel as the transport truck ground…