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Miracle of the orphans who escaped the gas chambers: Two Jewish boys who were among 13 children saved from the Nazis after they were hidden in a Belgian hospital are reunited after 76 years to reveal their incredible story Jacques Weisser and Bill Frankenstein were among only 13 of 39 Jewish children from the orphanage in Antwerp to escape the Holocaust and survive the War Aged one, the boys were spirited away from the Nazis tightening their grip on Antwerp and hidden at Sint-Erasmus Hospital The only memory Jacques had of Bill was from two black and white photos of them both taken in 1944 af...

Subscribe to our daily newsletter! Sign Up Jens Andersen from The Association of the Atlantic wall in Esbjerg in Denmark discovered a Randalls bottle close to a former Second World War camp. (29455245) The find was made by a Danish club that investigates wartime fortifications around Esbjerg, on the west coast of the Jutland peninsula in south-west Denmark. The country was occupied by Nazi forces from 1940 and its coastline formed part of German coastal defences from northern Norway to southern France. Jens Andersen, from the Association of the Atlantic Wall in Esbjerg, said there were many b...

The pilot who WASN'T over the White Cliffs of Dover: How Hurricane airman spent the war in Nazi PoW camp after bailing out while low on fuel when he mistook glare from Channel Island greenhouses for safety of iconic coast Sergeant Robert Stirling was part of the Royal Air Force's 87 Squadron Lost his bearings while chasing a German bomber towards France in April 1941 While attempting to return to Exeter base, he parachuted on to island of Lihou Spent night with a Guernsey family before handing himself in to Nazi authorities 

19 Jan 2021 We Are The Mighty | By James Elphick The 1998 movie “Saving Private Ryan” is one of the all-time great war movies. While much of the movie is a fictional account, the premise behind Capt. Miller’s mission is based on a true story. That is the story of the Niland brothers — Edward, Preston, Robert, and Frederick — from Tonawanda, New York. The two middle brothers inspiring the “Private Ryan” film, Preston and Robert, had enlisted prior to the beginning of the War. After America entered the war the ...

The Mysterious Death of Hitler's Engineer: Accident or Assassination? A plane crash claimed the life of Hitler’s minister of armaments, paving the way for the appointment of Albert Speer. Here's What You Need to Know: The official Luftwaffe accident report was never published, and the enduring mystery continues. In his 1969 memoir, Albert Speer asserted that Adolf Hitler would never have appointed him Third Reich minister of armaments had not his predecessor in that post, acclaimed engineering genius Dr. Fritz Todt, been killed in a still unexplained airplane crash in early 1942. Indeed, t...