The Best Gun of WWII – Flak 88 in stunning photos _us
The Flak 88 was a legendary WWII-era anti-air and an anti-tank gun used by Nazi Germany and their allies. The predecessor of this iconic gun was produced by Krupp during the First World War, designated as 8.8 cm Flak 16,…
Japanese anti-aircraft defense during the Second World War _us
By the beginning of World War II, there were several types of anti-aircraft machine guns in the Japanese armed forces, which differed constructively and used ammunition. In navy for Defense The Type 7,7 and Type 92 97 mm machine guns were used on boats…
Stalin’s Organ – 10 Surprising Facts About the Katyusha Rocket _us
“The Katyusha was omnipresent on the Eastern Front and likely contributed as much to the Allied victory as the M4 Sherman tank, the Higgins Boat or the Spitfire.” FOR ANYONE who fought on the Eastern Front in World War Two, the distinctive whine of…
Flakpanzer IV (3.7 cm Flak 43) ‘Ostwind’ _us1
As the Luftwaffe (German Air Force) lost control of the skies over Germany in the second half of the Second World War, it could no longer provide sufficient protection against Allied aircraft. Panzer divisions were especially affected by the lack…
Ruhe in Frieden, Jessica Joven stirbt nach einer Krankheit!
Die Stadt war am Montagabend nach dem tragischen Tod der 20-jährigen Mariana Gómez erschüttert. Sie wurde bei einer Schießerei in der Fifth Street von einer Querschlägerkugel tödlich getroffen. Was als gewöhnlicher Abend in einem geschäftigen Geschäftsviertel begann, endete schnell im…
Tragödie auf dem Bauernhof: Was mit Mike Biadasz geschah
Symbolfoto: Shutterstock An einem scheinbar gewöhnlichen Sommermorgen im Jahr 2016 machte sich Michael Biadasz auf, um eine Aufgabe zu erledigen, die er schon unzählige Male zuvor auf der Farm seiner Familie in Amherst, Wisconsin, ausgeführt hatte. Doch was ein ganz…
The Funniest and Weirdest Pictures Of WWII _us
War is a terrible thing but strange and funny pictures were taken during that period too. You will find no memes or modern stuff in here, only images that were taken in WWII by soldiers who were bored and in…
KL Auschwitz – Introduction to the Concentration and Extermination Camp _us
KL Auschwitz was a German Nazi concentration camp which existed in the years 1940–45. Its first prisoners were Poles. Initially the inmates also included a small group of Jews. In subsequent years prisoners of other nationalities and ethnicities were also…
Guards of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp: The banality of evil in portraits _uk
The term “banality of evil,” introduced by political theorist Hannah Arendt, expresses the unsettling idea that entirely ordinary people can commit cruel acts. The portraits of the Bergen-Belsen camp guards illustrate this concept in a striking way. Despite their banal,…
Wenn ein Lächeln mehr sagt als Worte: Die Geschichte eines mutigen Anfangs
Auf den ersten Blick sehen wir vielleicht nur zwei Bilder desselben Kindes. Doch hinter diesem Blick und Lächeln verbirgt sich eine Geschichte von Mut, medizinischem Fortschritt und Liebe, die Grenzen überschreitet. Auf der linken Seite des Fotos ist ein Baby…