Researchers have declassified more information from an SS officer's diary, which is said to contain information about hidden Nazi treasures. Much of it is believed to be in a well at the Polish baroque Hochberg residence near the Czech border.
The Battle of Midway was a decisive engagement in the Pacific during World War II. It ended with an Allied victory. Within five minutes, three Japanese aircraft carriers were turned into burning wrecks.
About 120 kilometres southwest of Pearl Harbor, underwater archaeologists have discovered the wreck of the legendary USS Nevada. It served in the US Navy for 35 years, eventually sinking after nuclear testing.
Reinhard Heydrich was a fanatical Nazi and the third most important man in Hitler's Germany. He even had an SS-3 license plate on his Mercedes. He planned the liquidation of the Czech nation, instead he was himself liquidated on May 27, 1942 by a pair of assassins.
The first agency report that German troops were massing in Saxony and Bavaria near the Czechoslovak border came on 18 May 1938. Whether they were planning to attack at that time is still a matter of speculation.
President Edvard Beneš returned from exile in London a hero, greeted by crowds of people. He had to go abroad after he gave up his post as head of state in October 1938 because of the Munich Agreement.
