Scopri gli eventi chiave e le storie di coloro che hanno vissuto questo difficile periodo storico.
Hans Kuik nacque il 19 novembre 1926. Nel maggio 1940, assieme a suo fratello maggiore Bert, assistette all’attacco ai P...
#Biografia
Nel 1944 Horst Helmus compiva diciotto anni. Per alcuni anni i tedeschi di Gummersbach, una cittadina a est di Colonia, ...
Hubert Pierlot, born in Cugnon, Belgium, was Prime Minister of the Belgian government in exile in London from September ...
The German Ilse Schier spent her childhood and youth in East Prussia, the easternmost part of the German Reich. Her rura...
In the last year of the Second World War, Jenny-Wanda Barkmann was a young SS-guard in the German concentration camp Stu...
Juan Pujol Garcia, known by the British codename Garbo, was a double agent during the Second World War. Pujol played a k...
The war took his family and his home. In 1945 Julius Erasmus returned to the Hürtgen Forest. On his own initiative he st...
Captain Franciszek Dąbrowski was major Sucharski right-hand man during the defence of the Military Depot at Westerplatte...
During the German assault on the Westerplatte, Mieczysław Słaby was responsible for treating the wounded. In spite of th...
Karl-Heinz Kracht era un caporale tedesco di 19 anni quando combatté per la prima volta, nella battaglia di Arnhem. Era ...
During the battle for the Scheldt the island of Walcheren was bombed heavily by the Allied air force. The aim of these b...
Corporal Leo Major landed in Europe on D-day and took part in every major operation of the 3rd Canadian Infantry Divisio...
Major Henryk Sucharski, the commander of the small garrison at Westerplatte, was under orders to thwart the German advan...
The 14-year-old Jew Manfred Steinfeld fled from Nazi Germany to the USA in 1938. Seven years later he returned with the ...
Mark Clark ricoprì un ruolo di primo piano nella campagna d’Italia (1943-1945). Fu prima comandante della 5a Armata USA ...
Melvin “Bud” Biddle era un giovane dalla voce calma che adorava la bella Leona, la sua fidanzatina d’infanzia. La guerra...
Soviet Colonel-General Nikolai Berzarin commanded the 5th Shock Army during the Berlin campaign that lasted from 16 Apri...
As an artillery officer for the U.S. 101st Airborne Division, Parker Alford travelled to Normandy, France, as part of th...
The story of Petronela Brywczyńska proves that no one was safe during the war. Petronela’s father, a Polish farmer, was...
In the desperate days of June 1940 captain Philippe de Hauteclocque made his way to London and adopted the war-name of "...
Charles of Belgium, brother of King Leopold III, was Regent of Belgium from September 1944 to July 1950. Nine government...
Ralph Neumann crebbe a Berlino, figlio di genitori ebrei. All’inizio del 1943 l’allora sedicenne Neumann riuscì a scampa...
Durante la seconda guerra mondiale, il francese René Rossey intraprese la carriera militare come volontario, inizialment...
On 13 December 1944, Robert Cahow lost his life in the Hürtgen Forest. He had volunteered to save injured comrades but d...
