Showing posts with the label Germany

Wilhelm Gustloff: The Deadliest Ship Disaster You Never Heard Of

Aug 22, 2022

The sinking of the British ocean liner Titanic in 1912, with over 1,500 fatalities, is probably the most famous shipwreck of all time, but n...

The Thousand-Year Rose of Hildesheim Cathedral

Aug 9, 2022

Climbing the outer wall of Hildesheim Cathedral’s apse is a rose bush, said to be one thousand years old. According to legend, as long as it...

Franz Halder: The Only German to be Decorated by Both Hitler and Kennedy

May 6, 2022

During the Third Riech, Hitler fortified his leadership atop bastions of war, invasion and politics. One of them though dared to traipse acr...

Kugelpanzer: The Mysterious Nazi Ball Tank

Apr 25, 2022

When the Soviet Union invaded Manchuria in 1945 after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the Red Army recovered a strange vehicle from the pos...

The Lying Stones of Adam Beringer

Mar 15, 2022

Fossils prove the existence of life at its peak, but in Dr Adam Beringer’s case, they wrote nothing but demise. Almost 300 years ago, he dis...

Mensur And Bragging Scars

Feb 25, 2022

This is Otto Skorzeny, often regarded as Hitler’s deadliest general. An Obersturmbannführer (lieutenant colonel) in the SS during World W...

Operation Epsilon: When Allied Forces Locked Ten German Scientists Together in a House

Feb 1, 2022

Near the end of World War 2, the Allied forces arrested ten German scientists who were thought to have worked on Nazi Germany's nuclear ...

The Nazi Gold of Merkers Mine

Jan 31, 2022

When the advancing Third Army of the United States marched into the captured German town of Merkers-Kieselbach towards the end of World War ...

Bertha Benz’s Historic Car Ride

Nov 17, 2021

In the early morning hours of August 5, 1888, the 39-year-old Bertha Benz, wife of automobile pioneer Karl Benz, sneaked out of the house, a...

How Air Raids in Britain Led to Shortage of Sausages in Germany

Nov 4, 2021

“It is far better to face the bullets than to be killed at home by a bomb,” proclaimed a British Army recruitment poster publicized during W...