Second World War

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• War in the air 8
• War crimes 24
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28. 3. 2013

28.3. 2013 Whiskey from the period of World War II

Two bottles of whiskey from the wreck of the SS Politician were available for at least 9,000 pounds eight years ago. She sank during World War II off Eriskay Island. Most of the crates of alcohol were discovered by locals.

They discovered the bodies of nuns who had been brutally murdered

Archaeologists have recently discovered the skeletons of Catholic nuns who were murdered by the Red Army at the end of World War II. Their discovery closes with months of searching. They lost their lives in a particularly brutal way while helping in the hospital. The soldiers also killed patients.

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.

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!

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.

11. 12. 1941

11.12. 1941 Germany and Italy declared war on the USA

On December 8, 1941, Congress declared war on Japan at Roosevelt's suggestion. On December 11, Germany and Italy declared war on the United States in accordance with the provisions of the 1940 Pact of the Three Powers. This created a major global conflict.

Divers found the Enigma in a fishing net

German divers from the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), searching for discarded fishing nets in the Baltic Sea, came across a surprising thing. From the water they pulled out a rare Enigma cipher machine used by the Nazi army during World War II.