Battle for Moscow: Turning the Nazi Tide
The Battle for Moscow lasted from late autumn of 1941 to mid-spring of 1942. Some seven million people were involved, including all the residents of Moscow. source
Art as artillery: War against Nazis was also waged on canvas
While radio broadcasts were a key weapon in the battle to win over hearts and minds, they were far from the only ones. The war against Nazi propaganda was ……
The man who dug up the remains of WWII victims in Singapore
In 1962, Goh Thiam Hoon uncovered a mass grave filled with the bones of the victims of Operation Sook Ching during World War II. He went on to help exhume…
92-year-old WW2 veteran flies Spitfire again – BBC News
92-year-old Air Transport Auxiliary veteran Joy Lofthouse returns to the skies in a Spitfire 70 years on from the end of World War 2. Seven decades after her last ……
Poroshenko’s fake news: Holocaust twisting social media post still online after 4 days
The president of Ukraine posted on Twitter to commemorate the deportation of many thousands of Ukrainian people to Siberia during the Soviet Union. But he … source
Rare WWII tank emerges from mud in Poland
A rare World War II tank has been discovered under mud in the Warta river in eastern Poland. The British-made Valentine is a unique find, since there are no ……
Luftwaffe ace flies in Spitfire – BBC News
One of Germany’s most highly decorated World War Two pilots has achieved a long-held ambition – to fly in a Spitfire. Hugo Broch, 95, took to the skies over Kent…
Hiroshima atomic bomb: Survivor recalls horrors – BBC News
Thursday marks 70 years to the day since the United States dropped the world’s first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Three days later it dropped a second…
Malta: ‘Nurse of the Mediterranean’. – BBC News
Subscribe to BBC News www.youtube.com/bbcnews Doctors in WW1 were tasked with treating casualties unlike any they’d said before. Dr Kevin Fong explores how Malta pushed its medical traditions… source
Auschwitz: Drone video of Nazi concentration camp – BBC News
Drone video shows the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp as it is today – 70 years after it was liberated by Soviet troops. The camp in Poland is now maintained as a…