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It was 1985 before he turned himself in, on The Today Show, of all places
Hitler's Last Soldier in America: In 1985 he Surrendered After 40 Years on The Run
During the Second World War, around 450,000 German prisoners of war were incarcerated in 700 camps across the United States. After the war ended, these
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Finnish soldier who during WW2, over-dosed on amphetamines, lost his squad, laid in a ditch for a week after stepping on a landmine, then travelled over 250 miles on skis, was found alive only weighin... View More
Over-Dosed on Amphetamines, Stepped On a Mine, Laid in a Ditch, Skied 250 Miles To Escape The Russians
Sadly, the news in recent years has too often been filled with stories about people becoming addicted to and overdosing on methamphetamine, a drug which
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Sterilization was considered voluntary but, in fact, it was not. It was intended to prevent reproduction by people who were not “Aryan” or who were considered carriers of defective genetic traits.
The Nazis Weren't The First, Sweden First Started Sterilising People Who Were Not “Aryan”
In the first half of the 20th century, as part of the study of eugenics in Sweden, a program was launched for compulsory sterilization. According to
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Unfortunely Sweden has done a 180 since those days, and the invading scum are destroying the country.
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When the bombers got back home, they told everyone about the sole fighter pilot in the Mustang P-51 who stubbornly refused to leave their sides.
A Lone Unidentified Mustang Pilot 'held off 30 fighters from attacking a squadron of B-17s for over half an hour'
There were a lot of heroes who emerged from World War II: soldiers, pilots, sailors, and more. One of them – James Howard – wasn't even born on American
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For most people, that’s just the name of standard brew made in a coffee machine. But the origins of the Americano go back to the Second World War.
Coffee & War The Origins of the Americano
The Origins of the Americano Have you ever wondered why every Italian style coffee house now sells something they call an Americano? For most people,
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Strange but true....
Japanese Fighter Pilot Who, after Pearl Harbor, Crash-Landed on Hawaiian Island & Terrorized the Residents
December 7, 1941, is remembered as the day Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, but it is also the day the Niihau Incident began. The incident involved Shigenori
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Standing up to Hitler was neither wise nor easy
Lived to Tell the Tale: He slammed his hand on the table & said to Hitler “I will not take orders from a local Nazi chieftain”
Any school teacher or parent will give the same advice to a child who is being harassed by a bully: stand up to him, and he will back down. There may be
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Captain Sladen, not wanting to seem rude and refuse the gift, loaded the reindeer into the submarine. To do this, the crew had to lower her through one of the torpedo tubes.
A Reindeer Lived on a British Sub, Ate a Navigation Chart, Got so Fat it Couldn’t Get Back Out
There are a lot of unusual moments from WWII that create some of the most interesting stories. One of these is undoubtedly the story of Pollyanna the
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Surprisingly, J.C. Bond worked under the guidance of Ian Fleming, long before Fleming became an author
Declassified Files: “My Grandfather did not have to play James Bond, he was James Bond”
In 2014, the relaxation of the British Official Secrets Act allowed a family that had always been curious about their grandfather’s wartime service to
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The Iconic Luger versus the Iconic Colt 1911
At the end of the nineteenth century, pistol designers were looking at ways to improve on the revolver which was at that time the standard ...