17Jun
World War 2 Youtube Series - The Tanks of Operation Barbarossa - WW2 Special
New on Youtube, from the makers and creators of Youtube channel 'The Great War', the Second World War week by week, 6 years long.
12Jun
World War 2 Youtube Series - Operation Barbarossa Transport Vehicles and Logistics - WW2 Special
New on Youtube, from the makers and creators of Youtube channel 'The Great War', the Second World War week by week, 6 years long.
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27May
World War 2 Youtube Series - The Battle to Crack Enigma - The real story of 'The Imitation Game'
New on Youtube, from the makers and creators of Youtube channel 'The Great War', the Second World War week by week, 6 years long.
24May
World War 2 Youtube Series - Invasion of Crete: a Bloody Mess - May 23 1941
New on Youtube, from the makers and creators of Youtube channel 'The Great War', the Second World War week by week, 6 years long.
20May
World War 2 Youtube Series - Roald Dahl - Pilot, Seducer and Author - WW2 Biography Special
New on Youtube, from the makers and creators of Youtube channel 'The Great War', the Second World War week by week, 6 years long.
17May
World War 2 Youtube Series - Nazi Nuts Trading Places & Victory for the Commonwealth
New on Youtube, from the makers and creators of Youtube channel 'The Great War', the Second World War week by week, 6 years long.
10May
World War 2 Youtube Series - Enigma Captured! - May 9, 1941
New on Youtube, from the makers and creators of Youtube channel 'The Great War', the Second World War week by week, 6 years long.
3May
World War 2 Youtube Series - Balkans in Nazi Hands - A Greek Tragedy
New on Youtube, from the makers and creators of Youtube channel 'The Great War', the Second World War week by week, 6 years long.
26Apr
"Deep in the core there is something not right in the way we commemorate"
[TRANSLATED BY: THIJS DE VEEN] During the Bachelor and Master American Studies at the University of Groningen, Sebastiaan Vonk specialized in how wars and other events are commemorated. That resulted in the (English) graduation thesis “War is Hell, but Damned Exciting”. Based on “battlefield tourism” the thesis asks whether the way history is dealt with can indeed prevent the repetition of history. The thesis was nominated for the Theodore Roosevelt American History Award and in the meantime has been published. We asked Sebastiaan a number of questions through e-mail about his thesis.
26Apr
World War 2 Youtube Series - Another Last Stand at Thermopylae - The Battle of Greece
New on Youtube, from the makers and creators of Youtube channel 'The Great War', the Second World War week by week, 6 years long.
25Apr
Roger Moorhouse wanted to bring Polish voices back into the narrative of the 1939 campaign
Roger Moorhouse is a historian and author specialising in modern German and Central European history, with particular interest in Nazi Germany, the Holocaust and World War Two in Europe. A visiting professor at the College of Europe in Warsaw, he is also the author of a number of books on modern German history, including Killing Hitler, Berlin at War, The Third Reich in 100 Objects and The Devils' Alliance. His latest book First to Fight: The Polish War 1939 - on the September Campaign that opened World War Two in Europe - was published in September 2019. We asked him some questions by e-mail about this book.
22Apr
World War 2 Youtube Series - Tanks of the Early North-Africa Campaigns, by The Chieftain
New on Youtube, from the makers and creators of Youtube channel 'The Great War', the Second World War week by week, 6 years long.
19Apr
World War 2 Youtube Series - Yugoslavia Crushed - Battle for Greece Continues
New on Youtube, from the makers and creators of Youtube channel 'The Great War', the Second World War week by week, 6 years long.
17Apr
World War 2 Youtube Series - Charles De Gaulle - The Flame of French Resistance?
New on Youtube, from the makers and creators of Youtube channel 'The Great War', the Second World War week by week, 6 years long.
12Apr
Sabaton - In Flanders Fields
In 2010, when this website was still called Go2War2.nl, we were informed of a band; Sabaton. A Swedish heavy metal band that wrote songs about war. The visitor thought that we should also write reviews about their albums. We thought differently. It was not until four years later, in 2014, that I wrote a first blog about it on a new website; Wo2Actueel.nl. A week later followed by a second. That website has been merged into this one. Now six years later it is time for a new story.
12Apr
World War 2 Youtube Series - Nazis in the Balkans - The Invasion of Greece and Yugoslavia
New on Youtube, from the makers and creators of Youtube channel 'The Great War', the Second World War week by week, 6 years long.
8Apr
World War 2 Youtube Series - Prince Paul of Yugoslavia - Victim of Circumstance?
New on Youtube, from the makers and creators of Youtube channel 'The Great War', the Second World War week by week, 6 years long.
6Apr
Crashed in the hostile nature of Netherlands New Guinea
[TRANSLATED BY: THIJS DE VEEN] In the summer of 1944 not only Normandy was the stage of war against a ruthless occupier. In the East too the allied forces were fighting a battle. In Netherlands New Guinea the Americans, Australians and Dutch fought side by side against the Japanese. In his new book KAIS Bas Kreuger tells the story of a lesser known, nonetheless very interesting history that took place at this war front.
3Apr
U.S. veteran James Megellas passed away (103)
We’re pausing tonight to mourn the loss but celebrate the life of WWII hero U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel (Ret.) James “Maggie” Megellas. He passed away peacefully this evening at age 103.
1Apr
TracesOfWar obtains unique photographs of Warsaw and the Jewish ghetto
Recently TracesOfWar recieved a collection of unique photo's. The photo's come from the heritage of a German soldier who served with a supply unit. They were taken in Warsaw and surroundings in 1942.
28Mar
World War 2 Youtube Series - Poland Will Not Bow to Nazis & Stalinists
New on Youtube, from the makers and creators of Youtube channel 'The Great War', the Second World War week by week, 6 years long.
25Mar
World War 2 Youtube Series - Hans Oster - A German Against Nazism
New on Youtube, from the makers and creators of Youtube channel 'The Great War', the Second World War week by week, 6 years long.
22Mar
World War 2 Youtube Series - Culling the Nazi Wolfpacks - Submarines, Spies, China, and Africa
New on Youtube, from the makers and creators of Youtube channel 'The Great War', the Second World War week by week, 6 years long.
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