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Austro-Hungarian Navy in photographs from the collection of Jaroslav Bily

You might be interested in this, the book was put together by my friend and her colleague and I have to say that the period photos of the warships of "our army" are really nice...

A shocking message from the past: children's identification stamps in the Sobibor extermination camp

Excavations at the Sobibor extermination camp in Poland have revealed four identification marks of murdered Jewish children. All came from Amsterdam, which was part of the targeted extermination of Dutch Jews in the spring and summer of 1943. In this camp alone, more than a quarter of a million people, thousands of young children, including infants, were cruelly murdered in just 16 months.

3.2.2016 Medals from World War I

The medal from the First World War was found by three searchers in Wales. They discovered it while they were resting and waved a metal detector around, which gave off a strong signal.

War 2020 - first special LP release this year

In January we will have a selection of the best December finds, but this is a specialty for fans of mainly WWII finds. So we have a winner!

3.1.2014 He found a war medal, gave it to his relatives

Paul Nunn made the relatives of one of the soldiers who fought in the First World War very happy. He and his wife, Kirs, used a metal detector to find a lost medal that the veteran had been awarded.

25. 12. 2014

25.12.2014 Archival wines in a Nazi bunker

Six years ago, a pair of searchers from Poland found archival wine in a Nazi bunker. They were exploring the cramped maze of Third Reich tunnels near the town of Swinoujscie. It's believed that no one has set foot there in the last 70 years.

20. 12. 1944

20.12.1944 Siege of Bastogne begins

An important success was scored by the American army at Bastogne in Belgium. They were able to break through the German defenses, even while battling disease and frostbite. The weather helped, and it calmed down on December 26, 1944.

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