Specials
- Article by Wesley Dankers
- Published on March 20th, 2016
Charles de Gaulle
- Article by Sjoerd de Boer
- Published on March 7th, 2021
Train carriage at Compiègne
- Article by Frank Meijerink
- Published on January 10th, 2015
Camp Erika
- Article by Jan-Jaap van den Berg
- Published on April 9th, 2025
Bagration 1944
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3Mar
A WWII helmet returns home 80 years after having been lost at Remagen Bridge, Germany
An american World War II helmet was found in the mud of the Rhine River, downstream from Remagen Bridge, during a drought in 2018. Inside the liner of the helmet, the soldier had carved his initials as well as his laundry number.
16Feb
Armin T. Wegner and his letter to Hitler
On April 1, 1933, the mood in many shopping streets in Germany was grim. Sturdy men in brown shirts with a black swastika on a red and white band on their upper arm were standing in front of large warehouses as well as tiny shops. These places had not been selected at random by members of Hitler’s Sturmabteilung or SA. Stars of David in white paint on shop windows and the text on the Nazi protest signs made it clear. ‘Germans, take care! Do not buy from Jews!’ was the slogan of the day.
14Feb
The hugely popular ‘Standing with Giants’ installation returns to the British Normandy Memorial
The giant silhouettes are returning to the meadow fields of the British Normandy Memorial, following last year’s overwhelming response to the ambitious and captivating project by the Standing with Giants charity.
In 2024, nearly a quarter of a million people visited the Memorial, many of whom experienced the power and poignancy of the 1,475 servicemen placed with heads bowed on the hillside overlooking Gold Beach, each representing a life lost on D-Day, 6 June 1944.
27Jan
Russia focuses on Soviet victims of WW2 as officials not invited to Auschwitz ceremony
On the edge of St Petersburg stands a dramatic memorial more than 40 metres high. At the very top is the figure of a mother with her children.
27Jan
Oswald Kaduk, ‘Papa Kaduk’ or a monster??
When Oswald Kaduk was called a swine on April 6, 1964, the news spread like wildfire all over the world. The insult was made in Frankfurt am Main, in a hall converted into a courtroom. Here, 22 men stood trial for crimes they had committed in the concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz during the war. The man who was insulted was one of them. Between 1942 and 1945 he had grown into one of the most feared and brutal guards in the Nazi camp in Poland. ‘Outburst stirs Auschwitz Trial,’ the New York Times reported the next day. According to a reporter, someone in the audience had disturbed the trial by yelling loudly ‘beat that swine to death,’ referring to Kaduk.
20Dec
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