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She attracted attention by her attitude, her colourful costumes and by a programme that alternated Russian and Chinese d...
#Biografia
“Throughout my life at the front there has not been an instant when I have not longed to be in battle. I want to be wher...
In 1950, Australian writer Paul Brickhill published “The Great Escape”. The book was based on a mass escape of 76 Allied...
Irma Grese was a female concentration camp guard (Aufseherin). She was only 18 years old when she began her service at t...
Horst Willner was a German U-boat commander. Between January and May 1945 he took part in a large naval evacuation opera...
Slávka Altmanová was born on 8 August 1923 in Volhynia. She witnessed the Soviet invasion in 1939 as well as the German ...
Richard Smola was born in Pilsen on the 3 June 1930. He witnessed the bombing of the city and its liberation by U.S. for...
Mapping the terrain of the beaches in Normandy was essential in preparing suitable landing craft and training troops for...
#Storia
During the preparations for D-Day, civilians in Southeast England saw thousands of troops and vehicles descend upon thei...
Jimmy Tompkins was a professional footballer who played for Fulham FC based at Craven Cottage stadium in Fulham. Tompkin...
The Women’s Royal Naval Service, or WRNS/Wrens, was re-established in 1939 and to take up a number of ancillary duties s...
Evelyn Lipmann survived four concentration camps and was finally freed from Salzwedel camp in April 1945. In 1947, she s...
Gustav Krukenberg was an SS general, who commanded several European Waffen-SS units during the Battle of Berlin....
Helmuth Weidling was a German general and the last commander of the Berlin defence area during the Battle of Berlin. On ...
Hanna Reitsch was a famous female test pilot in Nazi Germany, who among a few women was awarded with both classes of the...
Brigadier Miroslav Štandera was a Czech fighter pilot who fled Czechoslovakia after Nazi Germany occupied the country in...
Miluše Axamitová was born in 1929 near the city of Pilsen. She lived through the German occupation and witnessed Allied ...
Michal Brummel was born on 27 May 1933. His father came from a wealthy Jewish family, his mother was a Catholic from Aus...
William McBurney fought in the Battle of the Bulge as a member of the U.S. 761st Tank Battalion. As an African-American ...
Warren Crecy joined the U.S. Army when he was 19 years old. He fought in the Battle of the Bulge as a member of the 761s...
Suzanne Grégoire was an ardent communist activist. She dedicated her life to women’s rights and female activism. During ...
Nikolaus Brüll was born in 1922 in Eupen, a formerly German city annexed by Belgium after the First World War. Nikolaus'...
The life story of Malka Zimetbaum takes us from Poland to Belgium and back to a tragic end in Poland. Today Malka is a s...
Marie Vassiltchikov was a Russian princess, who wrote her Berlin Diaries from 1940 to 1945. These diaries describe the e...
