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Valery Faminsky was a Red Army photographer who made a number of photos during and after the Battle of Berlin. His warti...
#Biografia
Wilhelm Mohnke was an SS general. He commanded the SS guard units that protected the city centre and the government dist...
Vasily Chuikov was Marshal of the Soviet Union, who accepted the surrender of the German garrison of Berlin in May 1945....
Hans Fritzsche was a senior Nazi official of the Reich Propaganda Ministry who offered to surrender the city to the Red ...
The Second World War greatly disrupted the societies of the countries involved. As many men volunteered or were called u...
#Storyline
Ignati Feodotovich Dementyev was brought into the world around 1 January 1908 in the village Chaadayevka, in what is now...
We now know him as X-2212. For after his death he became a number. An X-number. An unknown soldier, victim of a war that...
Andrey Mikhailovich Semychev (Андрей Михайлович Семычев) was born in 1917 in the village of Podvyazye in the province of...
It is April 2021 when in the Georgian village of Sabue, the relatives of Elizbar Chitashvili are finally located. 76 yea...
A day after she landed at Schiphol airport, after travelling from far off Kurgan, Zoya Kozyreva stood at her father’s gr...
Konstantin Grigoryevich Butorin was born in 1909 in the far east of Kazakhstan. At ten years of age he leaves the parent...
Daughter Alexandra: “My daddy was born in the village of Zudilovo near Omsk (20 May 1917). Since childhood he worked on...
His stomach is grumbling louder than gunfire in the fields around Smolensk, observes Kazikhan. Sure, the battles at the ...
The Merlinettes were the first female soldiers allowed into the French Army. Their unit was created in 1942 and they pla...
Private Sidney Cornell was a British parachutist that participated in Operation Varsivity in March 1945 in France. He di...
Audie Leon Murphy was the most decorated American soldier of the Second World War. He received every military combat awa...
Waverly Bernard Woodson Jr. was an African American corporal who came ashore on Omaha beach in Normandy on D-Day. Despit...
After the death of Helene Kröller-Müller in 1939, Sam van Deventer becomes the new director of the Rijksmuseum Kröller-M...
#Storia
The Channel Islands were left undefended by British forces throughout WWII and lived under German Occupation for five lo...
The concentration camp in Stutthof was initially founded to eliminate and persecute Poles. Later in the war the role of ...
By 1945 it was clear that Nazi-Germany would lose the war. In May the Czech population rose up against the German occupy...
The battle of Berlin was one of the last battles of the Second World War in Europe. The war that had proceeded from Berl...
Operation Cannonshot was the code name for the Canadian crossing of the IJssel at Gorssel and Wilp on April 12, 1945. Af...
The Allied Rhineland Offensive comprised several large-scale military operations during the last months of the Second Wo...
