The first armed uprising in Nazi-occupied Europe occurred when 6,000 members of the Communist Party and its Youth League rise up against the Italian-occupied puppet Governorate of Montenegro in Yugoslavia.ww2dbase[Montenegro|AC] 13 Jul 1942 ...
Republic of Poland (1927-1929) Light Tank – 2 Prototypes Built After regaining independence in 1918, Poland found itself in a difficult situation. Even though it barely returned to the map of Europe after 123 years, it was under constant threat of an attack from both the east and the ...
3 Feb 1943 British Colonial Secretary Stanley announced that 5,000 Jews, 4,500 of them children, would be allowed to migrate from Bulgaria to Palestine. Additionally, 30,000 immigration certificates were made available for use by any Jewish children in southeastern Europe for Palestine. Unfortunatel...
"Aspects of History" Bombing of Hamburg in 1943 and the Impact of WW2 on Europe with Keith Lowe (Podcast Episode 2022) - Plot summary, synopsis, and more...
It sets in 1940-1943 during the event of WWII in Europe. The game offers a challenging virtual battlefield with an excellent combination of arms war simulation. The player can command or crew a variety of accurately modeled aircraft armored fighting vehicles and three vessels or fight as foot-...
Latvian AFVs of the Interwar and WW2 Latvia is a small country in eastern Europe on the shores of the Baltic Sea. It shares borders with the other two Baltic nations (Estonia and Lithuania), Russia and Belarus. After the Latvian War of Independence (1918-1920), the Latvian government was...
and Eastern Europe. The hospital remained at Eudenbach for the entire period of fighting in the Ruhr pocket. At the time it even became necessary to use some of the available Field Hospitals as Evacuation Hospitals in order to keep pace with the rapidly moving combat troops. The strategic obj...
Born in 1904, the American journalist moved to Europe in the 1920s to work as a correspondent and to write in the romantic vein of contemporaries like Fitzgerald and Hemingway. It is telling that all three writers were from the American Midwest. In the 1930s Shirer found himself in Germany...
On celebrating Nazism and here’s the critical difference to how hero worship of Nazi elite was treated in Europe and the Soviet Union/Russia in the 1980’s and 1990’s – as opposed to how it was treated in South Africa. In Germany, and even in death Rudolph Hess continued to be cont...
Day (6 Jun 44) to V-E Day (8 May 45) the Hospital admitted 10,859 patients and discharged 9,971, with patients either going back to duty, transferred to other hospitals, evacuated to the ZI, or dying during or after surgery. There were 888 patients remaining on Victory-in-Europe Day...