Early skirmishes between Britain and Nazi Germany
22.08.2024
Once the Second World War officially began at the start of September 1939, the British Royal Navy instituted a distant and somewhat half-hearted blockade of Nazi Germany's coastlines.
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World War II
75 years ago: Nazi Germany lies in debris and how the Wehrmacht's ultimate defeat was caused
08.05.2020
Three-quarters of a century ago the Third Reich lay in ruins, its ruler Adolf Hitler dead, having shot himself in the right temple with his 7.65mm pistol on 30 April 1945. Hitler had refused to leave Berlin over previous days, knowingly sealing hi
75 years ago: Red Army surrounds Berlin and analysing Germany's failed 1942 advance
24.04.2020
Three-quarters of a century ago, on 21 April 1945 the Soviet Army had encircled Berlin and was unleashing its final attack upon Nazi Germany.
75 years ago: Hitler prepares for Operation Spring Awakening as Auschwitz is liberated
31.01.2020
It is often thought that the Third Reich's final major offensive of the Second World War comprised the Battle of the Bulge, which was launched in mid-December 1944 against the western Allies through Belgium, France and Luxembourg, with much of the
