. After France was liberated from the Nazis in 1944, a wave of retributions swept […]
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Dresden, 1945
Over 2 days in February 1945, 3,900 tons of explosives were dropped over Dresden. Thirteen square miles and 100,000+ civilians were annihilated. Richard Peter explored the city devastated by the firebombing.
Last Picture of War | Robert Capa
His biographer called them the most gruesome photographs of Robert Capa’s career. In a Leipzig flat, a young soldier lay dead from a sniper.
The Zamzam Affair
. “One of the picture scoops of World War II,” Time magazine called it. The […]
Klarsfeld slaps Kiesinger, 1968
In 1968, 29-year-old Beate Klarsfeld slapped German Chancellor Kiesinger at a party conference, accusing him of being a Nazi.
A Massacre at Pancevo
An enduring myth about the Second World War is the canard that the Germany Army, […]
Jean Leslie (1923 – 2012)
Jean Leslie, MI5 secretary whose photograph may or may not have changed the outcome of […]
Hitler’s Little Jig, 1940
On June 21, 1940, Hitler received France’s surrender in the same railroad car in which Germany had signed the 1918 armistice and danced.
Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya
Travelogues tend to be disappoint. Instead of travelogues that tell gripping stories about both people […]
Paris Under Nazi Occupation by Andre Zucca, 1941
André Zucca was the only photographer to take colour photographs of Paris during the occupation. After working as a war correspondent for Paris Match and Paris Soir in 1939, he was requisitioned by the Germans to work for the propaganda magazine Signal.