Labour minister refuses to say sorry to Nigel Farage as huge row explodes
Nigel Farage slams Labour after Peter Kyle’s comments A Labour minister has refused to apologise to Nigel Farage after accusing him of being on the side of “people like Jimmy Savile”. Peter Kyle made the controversial claim over Reform UK’s pledge to scrap the Online…
German Soldiers in Pictures: Stories and Photographs from the World Wars (Part 45) _de
In the photo: German paratroopers on reconnaissance patrol in the Italian mountains (February 1944). In the photo: A Wehrmacht soldier enjoys a bottle of wine, presumably somewhere in France. The helmet he’s wearing is the famous M40 model. In the…
Monuments Men in Pictures: Preserving Humanity’s Cultural Heritage during World War II (1943–1945)
The Heroes in the Shadows: How a Group of Art Experts Saved Europe’s Cultural Heritage from the Nazis During World War II, the Nazis plundered countless works of art from museums, galleries, and private collections. Their goal was to build…
Norway after liberation: Historical photos of German prisoners of war in Norway, 1945 _de3
The German occupation of Norway began on April 9, 1940, after German troops occupied the neutral Scandinavian country of Norway. It ended on May 8, 1945, after the surrender of German troops in Europe. During this entire period, Norway was…
Forgotten Faces: German Soldiers in Pictures (Part 51) _de
In the photo, German soldiers receive a white flag from surrendering French soldiers (1940). In the photo, mountain troops climb into a Junkers 52 before the Battle of Crete (1941). They are armed with the Karabiner 98k. German soldiers on…
Shortly after the Second World War, 48 astonishing photos document everyday life in Berlin in 1946 _de1
When Hitler was defeated by the Allies in World War II, he left behind few postwar plans. Under the Nazi regime, even mentioning the possibility of defeat was considered treason, and in the end, virtually every available resource was…
Rare color photos of German-occupied Paris during World War II, 1940s
The footage shows fashionably dressed young women and commuters mingling with German soldiers on the busy streets of Paris. The famous streets of the French capital are decorated with symbols of the German regime, but the Parisians appear jubilant. André…
German soldiers on the march
German soldiers on the march. No further details are known, although some flowers by the roadside and the general appearance of the landscape suggest that the image may have taken place somewhere on the Western Front in late spring or…
1,700 rounds per minute: MG34 – the Bundeswehr’s super weapon _de
The MG 34 design originated in Germany during the interwar period before the two World Wars. Until World War II, machine guns were typically water-cooled—and accordingly heavy and immobile. Efforts to develop an air-cooled machine gun led to the…
The Wailing Wall and the Air Defense of the Third Reich
The negative archive of a German soldier serving in the anti-aircraft division consisted of 42 black-and-white negatives measuring 6 x 9 cm in a yellowed Agfa paper envelope. This envelope was handed over on September 28, 1941, at the Heinz…